Today, I want to talk about how the Coronavirus crisis intersects with the climate crisis. Specifically, I’m here to offer a rebuttal to the prevalent narrative that “Coronavirus is good for the climate” because of the reduction in...
Category - Social Justice
The spectre of climate fascism and how we resist it
You know what? The one thing that scares me more than the thought of a not-so-distant future of climate breakdown, is a future where the far-right dominate our society’s response to climate breakdown. If this happens, we could see something really...
My top 4 climate superheroes on Twitter
If you want to widen your horizons by following some fresh voices, look no further. I’ve pulled together a list for you of my top four Twitter climate heroes. I didn’t especially mean to make this a list of women climate heroes, but my overall top...
Young people and climate change: Why it’s our time to take the reins
I was born in 1993. A British nineties kid. I remember one day when I was seven, I ran screaming through the house giddy with excitement because Pokémon and Digimon were both on TV on the same afternoon and one of my milk teeth had just fallen out...
Green New Deal: A bold vision for America’s future
Something amazing is happening in American politics. Wow it felt good, and weird, to type that sentence. Not sure if you noticed, but it’s been kind of a hellish shitshow recently. Anyway… On Tuesday 13th November 2018, a group of young...
3 big reasons climate change is a justice issue
I bet you think of climate change as an environmental issue. It’s mainly about the atmosphere and polar bears and carbon, right? Well, not really. I mean yes – it is partly about those things, but I want to talk about about why climate change...