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Category: Climate Change

Climate Change Posted on8th May 202227th November 2022

We Are Not This Map

“We are not this map”: connecting struggles for land and justice in Skye and the Amazon. On a dreich April day Maria Leusa Kaba Munduruku […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on24th October 20213rd January 2022

COP26: Scotland’s pioneering tradition can help solve the climate crisis

When delegates convene for COP26 next week they will do so in a city that is still, despite the best efforts of planners and developers, […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on13th September 20213rd January 2022

The politics of traffic are a dead-end: why it’s time to replace the M8

Depending on who you listen to, Glasgow is either uniquely well suited to play host to COP26, or outrageously ill-prepared. Amid growing political rancour ahead […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on13th August 202125th August 2021

Scotland’s choice: oil or freedom?

By the end of 2021 the city of Glasgow will become shorthand for a landmark moment in human history; one way or another. As things […] Read More

Climate Change, Politics Posted on25th July 202125th August 2021

Good COP Bad COP: Big Oil, Cambo and Media Climate Lies

You find yourself commuting home from work one day. Unexpectedly, your train stops mid-tunnel. You then notice that water is seeping through the closed doors, […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on16th July 202116th July 2021

Summer Detours 3: Shitting in the Cathedral

Shit — imagine huge immovable mountains of the stuff, caked into the stones or rushing forth in biblical torrents. A great leveller, tramped in by […] Read More

Climate Change, Scottish Politics Posted on16th July 202116th July 2021

Summer Detours 1: Under the Bridges

If, like me, you’ve visited New York on the cheap, you may be aware that the Waldorf Astoria contains a Starbucks in its lobby – thereby allowing pretty much anyone to wander […] Read More

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Climate Change, Culture Posted on7th September 20209th September 2020

You Don’t Get to Grow Up in the World You Imagined

We all felt a pang of the immediacy and excitement of youth when lockdown came around, in those first days when it seemed like everything […] Read More

Climate Change, Radical Routes Posted on17th February 20209th September 2020

RADICAL ROUTES PART TWO: A LONG TIME GONE, MEMORY AND MINING FROM SILESIA TO THE RUHR

“During the industrial era people were forced to endure long and bitter conflicts in their struggle to participate in the political system…It remains to be […] Read More

Climate Change, Radical Routes Posted on17th February 20209th September 2020

RADICAL ROUTES PART ONE: OLD-FASHIONED LOYALTIES

I take the slow train from Berlin to the Polish border in the early morning. On the platform of an eastern suburban station, tired workers […] Read More

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