Why I stopped arguing about the climate emergency and tried the silent treatment instead | Helena Echlin
My clown-white facepaint makes my skin feel tight and I’m scared my elaborate headdress is going to slip. It’s my first outing with the Red Rebel Brigade, the silent climate activist performance group. About a dozen of us are clad…
HSBC investors reject plan to split bank in meeting disrupted by climate protest
HSBC has defeated an attempt to split up the bank after a majority of investors rejected a plan backed by its largest shareholder at the bank’s annual general meeting, which was heavily disrupted by climate protests. The bank’s chair, Mark…
Students occupy schools and universities across Europe in climate protest
A wave of student occupations has shut down schools and universities across Europe as part of a renewed youth protest campaign against inaction on climate breakdown. Twenty-two schools and universities across the continent have been occupied as part of a…
WATCH: Kennedy stumps Biden official on $50 trillion cost to fight climate change: ‘You don’t know, do you?’ – Fox News
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., left one Biden administration official without words Wednesday when he pressed him to answer one simple question: How much would spending $50 trillion in American taxpayer money to become carbon-neutral lower global temperatures? “If we spend…
Fire and concrete: will France’s model of radical climate protest catch on?
In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they build a wall across one side, and set the other side on…
Climate talks see push for global renewable energy target – The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Germany called Tuesday for governments around the world to work on setting an ambitious target for renewable energy that would “ring in the end of the fossil fuel age” and help prevent dangerous global warming. Speaking at…
Police to get powers to ban slow walking in traffic amid Just Stop Oil protests
Suella Braverman is to give police the power to ban slow walking in traffic by protesters, as Just Stop Oil enters the fifth consecutive day of using the tactic in the latest phase of its climate protest campaign. The home…
The forecast looks grim as climate crisis knocks cricket for six
“Like most cricketers, I just want a peaceful life,” says Xeena Cooper, a member of Bristol’s Extinction Rebellion Cricket Club, hitting a ball around in Hyde Park in the spring sunshine. “I don’t want to feel guilty or anxious or…
Six ways to lower your carbon emissions quickly – BBC
Tackling climate change on a global level is an immense challenge – but some small, easy actions are accessible to most people. Many millions of people around the world are expected to participate in Earth Day on Saturday in support…
When climate despair spills over into righteous violence, can that ever be right? | Natasha Walter
The new film How to Blow Up a Pipeline raises loudly the question that many protesters are asking quietly: what happens when peaceful climate protest fails? In its sympathetic depiction of a group of climate activists who set out to…
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