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Natural resources have been plundered from the global South for centuries - and yet those countries are now in debt. We need cancellations - and also reparations.

Southern countries, rich in minerals, are being forced to even export more resources to sustain the industries of developed countries.

The Polluters Out’s (PO) twitter campaign showed the power of social media in garnering the attention of BP’s chief executive and directors.

Corporate profiteering and state repression in Nigeria’s Oil Niger Delta must end as part of any just Green New Deal.

In 2015, Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian small-scale farmer, sued the German energy giant RWE, the biggest single emitter of CO2 in Europe.

The coronavirus pandemic cannot obscure the even greater threat of climate breakdown.

If Western states are to adopt the Green New Deal policies needed to ensure our survival, they themselves will need to be radically transformed.

Fraud, counterfeiting, bribery, corruption, sabotage, theft, and other criminal activities are rife in global nuclear industry.

The original New Deal has credited with saving the US economy from the Great Depression and, perhaps, saving the country from socialism.

Climate change causes mental illness, but we lack the language to fight back.

The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.

Tens of millions to up to a billion people could be displaced by climate change within the next three decades.

The unprecedented oil crash at the beginning of 2020 drove straight into the pandemic lockdowns.

Come to think of it, what does COP26 actually stand for?

Migration to North America has become predominantly male because of climate hazards and hostile immigration policies.

Women in all their diversities are disproportionately affected by climate breakdown due to existing structural and systemic inequalities.

We must create an economic ethos that places mutual collaboration above profit.

Climate breakdown is leading to ever-greater migration - but the issue is still largely invisible in migration discourse and response.

Incorporating the ocean into visions of an environmentally stable future would first require a change in our ocean imaginary.

The push to extract raw materials for an urgent ‘clean energy’ transition is impacting on vulnerable frontlines in resource-rich areas.
 

The Maori fight for water and against empire.

Glacial melt due to climate breakdown is already having rapid impacts on vulnerable communities.

Bringing hydroponics under the banner of organic would create a marketing ‘glow’ for hydroponics - but it would be to the detriment of organic.

Keeping peoples on their land is our responsibility if we want to succeed in building a world for climate justice.