global warming

Workers and youth unite against capitalist polluters

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser · As we live through the molten heat, thunder and lightning, floods and general climate chaos of recent weeks, new reports on the catastrophic ...

What are the progressive class solutions in climate change debate?

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · I’m looking forward to the Scottish Socialist Voice Forum on how to counter the threat climate change poses in ways that enrich and improve the lives ...

A clean green Scotland is possible… if we act quickly

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Annie Morgan, Glasgow South SSP • The Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change (IPCC) has reported that we have little more than a decade to curb emissions or face catastrophic climate ...

Climate change: Big Oil knew all along

April 27, 2018 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • You know what the worst thing is? They knew all along. Yes, they did! But then, you knew they knew, didn’t you? In your heart of hearts. In a sea of knowledge, they just ...

Is climate change turning our food to junk?

October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

Roz Paterson looks at some worrying new research • One thing we can all agree on—and that includes even the most right-wing, climate-change sceptical, oil-drunk zealot—is that there is more ...

Climate change deniers can expect tough challenges

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • Global temperatures in 2017 will, probably, not exceed those of 2016. That’s the good news. In full. Happy new year. Last year and the year before broke all records in terms of ...

Trump’s climate deniers menace the planet

December 2, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • The blows are coming thick and fast. The conciliatory speeches are out the window and now America’s President Elect Donald Trump is talking about mass deportations, Nigel ...

Brexit puts EU-based environmental controls at risk

November 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

by Roz Paterson • In the wake of almost certain Brexit, the pariah that is the UK may well have to prostrate itself at the feet of anyone willing to do business, even if that means abandoning ...

Why green capitalism can’t work

September 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

Book review: Green Capitalism: Why It Can’t Work by Daniel Tanuro from Resistance Books • by Norman Lockhart • I was glad I invested £10 for this book, even though the first third of the ...

‘System change not climate change’

November 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance to join climate march, 28 Nov, Edinburgh by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson Governments from all countries will assemble in Paris from 30 November to 11 ...