Gareth Dale

Extraction of raw materials could rise 60 per cent by 2060 – so is degrowth the answer?

Degrowth and its opponents recognize the necessity of mass movements and system change to address the climate emergency.

The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?

The extreme heat of the upcoming El Niño years should compel us to subordinate profit motives to urgent climate goals. This article first appeared at Truthout.

The degrowth movement is on the ascent, and Marxists are joining the debate, spurred by Kohei Saito's best-selling book on "degrowth communism".

'Jet zero' is basically just pie in the sky - according to a powerful new report published today by the Royal Society.

The buzz around the hydrogen economy is shifting up a gear. But is hydrogen the spearhead technology in a green transition, or an elaborate bait-and-switch orchestrated by Big Oil and Gas?

Liz Truss's decision to overturn the fracking ban in the UK is reigniting grassroots resistance.

Is the UK Labour party the party of labour - or the party of the oil industrial complex? A short history.

The facts of climate breakdown are scientifically established - so don't get lost in BBC Radio Four's latest Moral Maze.

Boris Johnson’s calculated error: climate migration and civilisation collapse, from Ancient Rome to COP26.

The leaders gathered at COP26, with the British government to the fore, remain in the thrall of technology fetishism. 

Jet Zero is a charade, driven by considerations of profit, economic growth and aviation's corporate consumers.

Special Investigation: It’s not ‘Jet Zero.’ It’s not even net zero. It’s plane insanity - and we’re heading for a hard landing.

A review of Andreas Malm's Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century.

How should nation states respond to coronavirus and mitigate the crisis of capital?

The third in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The second in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from Political Economy for the End Times.

The first in a three-part interview on capitalism and climate breakdown from the podcast Political Economy for the End Times.

The 'Absolute Zero' report demonstrates how the UK can deliver on its climate change commitments. In doing so, it debunks technological utopianism - but what of economy and class?

'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'

The relentless pursuit of GDP growth is being challenged from environmental and well-being standpoints. But where did the idea come from?

A review of Aaron Bastani, ‘Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto’ published on 11 June 2019 by Verso Books.

How does capitalism condition the ways in which we measure, imagine and weaponise time - and what does this mean for our future?