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climate changeGlobal warming: nothing to do with human action, an illusion, a minor irritant, a technical problem that can be managed by normal development, or the most serious threat to the world after nuclear war? openDemocracy's new debate on the politics of climate change is running now. Join it. What impact will the global economic downturn have on arguments about climate change?
The pressures of debt, peak oil and climate change require a radical policy response
The financial breakdown is opening new fissures in the world's political crust
Two crises - the financial crash and climate change - reveal two faces of Europe
In a hard corner of southern Ethiopia, the multiple causes of the global food crisis converge
The post-summit headlines conceal the G8's retreat from leadership in climate policy
Drought, thirst, and land-hunger...a parched earth equals global environmental danger
A frail beating heart can also be a route to compassion in the world beyond
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios, in the author's 350th openDemocracy column since September 2001
..or does it get in the way? The search for new ground on a question of global relevance
How refreshing the public realm can unlock climate-change solutions
How an old, discredited idea is reappearing as progressive - and
dangerous - fashion
The world's energy crisis may lead China to save as well as shake the world
A new climate-governance regime would unlock progress. Here's why and how
Australia's experience argues for a politics beyond democracy
Who is taking real responsibility for tackling climate change: celebrities, citizens, companies, or countries?
The politics of energy in an era of global warming are reshaping United States politics from below, says Carl Pope of leading green movement the Sierra Club. Read the rest of this post...
The danger of return to full-scale civil war demands a firm preventative response, says Meenakshi Ganguly of Human Rights Watch. Read the rest of this post...
A new paper from the Institute for Economic Affairs decries environmental ‘alarmism’ on climate change. For Julian Baggini, this latest anti-green polemic reflects a phase of public debate where the public retreats and the zealots entrench. A more mature, open-minded dialogue is needed. Read the rest of this post...
For two weeks, openDemocracy’s Globalisation editor, Caspar Henderson, is on board the 93-year old ship “The Noorderlicht” – sailing to the Arctic in an innovative expedition that fuses art, film and science to monitor and communicate the impact of global warming. With the Dutch crew of four is a twenty-person group that includes photographers, oceanographers, artists, geographers, and writers. During the voyage, Globolog publishes Caspar’s vivid reports from an environment of deep currents and melting ice, where the bonds between nature and humanity take on fresh meanings. Read the rest of this post...
Climate change: the history of the 21st century starts with scientific understanding of what is really happening. In its light, what choices can and should we make? Read the rest of this post...
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Behind the clash of arms and ideas over Iraq, the power politics of the 21st century will also be shaped by climate change, technological advance, and challenges to corporate interest. Oil, gas, and the form of industrial society will be key areas of contest. Read the rest of this post...
Equity may be more difficult to define and measure than GCI models suggest. Read the rest of this post...
Aubrey Meyer of the Global Commons Institute defends his pioneering ‘contraction and convergence’ approach to climate change as the only path to survival. Read the rest of this post...
What should be done, and what can be done, about global warming? The key to a sustainable future for the planet may lie in tying together these two questions, says the Swiss-born philosopher and mathematician Benito Müller. In an interview with Caspar Henderson, the Globalisation editor of openDemocracy, he proposes that the application of ‘distributive justice’ may just help to change life on Earth for the better. Read the rest of this post...
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