FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself …
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The power of democracy against the power of finance
This elections year, it is hard to imagine that European citizens will be satisfied with shallow political promises: they are furiously standing up against business as usual. All over Europe, …
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Urgency in the Anthropocene
A proposal to reframe the Anthropocene as an age of actual and emerging coexistence with earth system variability, encompassing both human dignity and environmental sustainability. Is this the Anthropocene, the …
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Climate crisis: flooding threat ‘may force UK towns to be abandoned’
Environment Agency calls for urgent action to protect country from river and coastal floods Entire communities might need to be moved away from coasts and rivers as the UK takes …
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Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope, edited by John Foster
We are used to hearing that the climate crisis is serious, but still tractable if we start acting on it soon. The reality is different. Things are going to get …
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Extinction Rebellion targets financial sector ahead of ‘closing ceremony’
Ahead of this evening’s closure of its London camps, Extinction Rebellion (XR) this morning launched a final wave of protests across the capital’s financial sector. Members of the Christian Climate …
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Alarming Rate of Forest Loss Threatens a Crucial Climate Solution
The world’s forests continue to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening a resource that scientists say is a crucial “natural solution” for controlling climate change on an urgently short timescale. …
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Major Breakthroughs on Central Banks and Climate Change
If we’re going to stop irreversible climate change, we need to decarbonise our financial system, which channels billions of pounds into fossil fuels every year. As institutions at the heart …
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Nobel for Economics 2018 – a question of imbalance
Dimitri Zenghelis explains why Paul Romer’s theory of endogenous growth can be harnessed to direct and design a net-zero-carbon future while using William Nordhaus’s DICE and RICE models may already …
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Investors give Italian bank a wake-up call on climate change
On the day of its AGM, a group of investors are calling on Italian bank, UniCredit, to start taking climate change seriously. In an action coordinated by responsible investment charity, …
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