by Andrew Simms | 16 March 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Here’s some evidence-based hope in a warming world… Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we’ve made this short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action...
by Andrew Simms | 15 March 2019 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial
Instead of the usual wrangling over policy, as it is a Friday and in honour of the global schools’ climate strike happening today and the Fridays for Future movement, here is a song about climate breakdown written especially for us by our long-time collaborator,...
by Andrew Simms | 27 February 2019 | Blog, Daily Climate Denial, Rapid Transition
Key decisions are being taken now about whether or not the UK locks-in continuing dependence on fossil fuels. The fracas over fracking led some scientists with relationships to the oil and gas industry in a letter to The Times newspaper to support claims for a...
by Andrew Simms | 26 February 2019 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Lindsay Mackie looks at the costs and consequences when extractive capitalism is put in charge of providing essential public services, and asks why lessons are not being learned or companies held to account? It’s like irregular buses – along they come in unwanted...
by Andrew Simms | 6 February 2019 | Blog, Weather Bombs
As different parts of the planet freeze and fry simultaneously, Prof Bill McGuire says global warming is no longer a future problem, the reality is here and now… The term climate change never quite hit the spot as a description of what is happening to our...