Given that renewable energy has become the cheapest energy source in recent years, it should be supplanting fossil fuels. But, as Brett Christopher points out in The Price is Wrong, contemporary neoliberal capitalism does not operate on such logic. Neville Spencer reviews Christopher's book.
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While Adani, now Bravus, has not appealed a court hearing in which most of its key points against Galilee Blockade activist Ben Pennings were struck out, it has been given another month to resubmit. Margaret Gleeson reports.
Despite COP29 overrunning by 33 hours to finalise negotiations, the United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change ended without any agreements to meaningfully confront the climate crisis, reports Ben Radford.
People's Blockade participants explain why they attended, what they think about the NSW government's attempts to suppress the protest and why we need to end coal and gas.
Rising Tide is preparing for the biggest 2024 Peoples Blockade of the world’s largest coal port in its almost 20 years of protesting human induced fossil-fuel driven climate change. Zane Alcorn and Niko Leka report.
Climate activists and organisations say environment minister Tanya Plibersek’s decision to approve the expansion of three thermal coal mines in north-western NSW will “supercharge climate change”. Kerry Smith reports.
Jason Hickel, progressive anthropologist and author, gave the following speech at the 50th Anniversary Congress on the New International Economic Order, held in Havana, Cuba from April 28 to May 1.
The First Wave, a new film by environment group Rising Tide, was launched by an enthusiastic crowd. Jim McIlroy reports.
Former Coalition Prime Minister Scott Morrison was always the apotheosis of politics’ worst tendencies: shallow form, public service for private interest and, ultimately, the scrap for survival at the expense of the grand vision, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Look behind the newly converted whale-loving type and there is likely to be an avid fossil-fuel lobbyist, or someone advocating the merits of nuclear energy, as Binoy Kampmark reports.
Scientists have criticised Australia for continuing to approve fossil fuels. As Labor does not listen, students need to stand up, a climate striker said after disrupting parliament. Chloe DS reports.
Tens of thousands poured into the streets of New York City, on September 17, for the largest climate mobilisation in the United States in years, reports Jake Johnson.
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