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Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis

Oct 30, 2024 | Books, Opinion

‘You can’t shoot climate change’: In his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, the Marxist thinker Richard Seymour explores how extremist movements around the world seek to blame fictional enemies for real disasters.

Open-pit conflict

Oct 21, 2024 | Articles

In a Rocky Mountain town in southwest Alberta, a bitter battle is brewing. With a history of coal mining, the community is debating whether to stay true to its roots and support the return of coal — or leave the mining industry in the past.

Can Lula and Petro unite to save the Amazon?

Oct 16, 2024 | Articles

The rainforest nations of Brazil and Colombia have the best opportunity in a generation to drag the Amazon back from the abyss as they host three of the world’s most important environmental negotiations in the space of little more than a year.

Canada’s innovative carbon tax faces the axe

Oct 5, 2024 | Politics & Human Rights, Science

Hailed as a global model of progressive environmental policy, Canada’s carbon tax has reduced emissions and put money in the pockets of Canadians. But the federal Conservative leader promises to get rid of it.

‘After Hitler’: Changing German views of Nazism

Sep 26, 2024 | History

From secret adoration to loud dismay, Germans have come to terms with the Nazi past over 80 years in very different ways, as a new exhibition shows.