Do you see climate change as a political issue? It’s pretty common to hear people deriding the fact that climate change is a political issue, or asserting that in fact it isn’t. I see this most in the American context, but over in my neck of...
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Feeling powerless? Here’s seven types of citizen power
As we’ve recently passed the 100-year mark since some women first got the vote, I think it’s a good time to talk about citizen power. We all know power is very unequally distributed in UK and US society, and this concentration of power at the top of...
Why we can’t rely on individuals to fix climate change
The other day I saw a tweet that had escaped its platform of birth to become a Facebook meme. I can’t find it, but it said something like: “Can we all please stop acting like ordinary people are to blame for climate change because we won’t take 5...