Land inequality, my friend Robin and Malawi
Mulanje mountain in the south of Malawi is a truly mystical place. It rises from the plain in very steep cliffs, to a mysterious plateau high in the clouds. Its near vertical walls of black rock have water pouring down them that glistens magically in…
Locusts, disasters and the other side of climate inequality.
Locusts, climate loss and inequality In the summer of 2020, when the world was reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya and other drought-stricken countries in East Africa were hit by a plague of locusts. It was a truly biblical moment. Millions of these voracious insects…
Carbon Billionaires
By Max Lawson The growing anger at the carbon emissions of the super-rich The carbon emissions of the luxury consumption of the super-rich are gaining more and more coverage and rightly making a lot of people very angry. This week saw protests at the giant…
Climate Change is a Class Issue
By Max Lawson France, 2018. The country is paralysed by a huge series of protests against moves by President Macron to raise green taxation on fuel, whilst simultaneously abolishing the wealth tax on the super-rich. The protestors become known as the ‘Gilet Jaune’ or Yellow…
Africa is so rich in farmland – so why is it still hungry?
By Anthony Kamande and Dailes Judge It’s been more than two months since it rained in Nakuru County, Kenya, and Jane’s bean crop is long gone. Her only hope on her small plot of 0.8 hectares is the maize crop – but it will also…
Beating back the Billionaire Variant
By Anthony Kamande In the informal settlement area of Kawangware in Nairobi, my friend Joe, a nurse, is quarantining in his small room after getting COVID-19 for the second time. He’s less concerned about the virus than his finances, which have deteriorated severely in the…
Extreme inequality is economic violence
By Deepak Xavier and Victoria Harnett How did we get here? How did we end up in a reality where the vast majority of the most vulnerable have little hope of feeling safe from the virus when it’s more than a year since the first…
Making extreme wealth extinct
By Max Lawson In the week before the COP we released a report together with the Institute for European Environment Policy, (IEEP) with new figures on the carbon emissions of the world’s richest. The report was once again written by my brilliant former colleague at…
POST-COP: WHAT’S NEXT? CLIMATE JUSTICE V CLIMATE COLONIALISM – With Asad Rehman and Nafkote Dabi
By Elizabeth Njambi Here’s your post-COP26 deep dive! What do the outcomes mean for us all? Why were developing countries insisting on reparations? What’s the fuss about billionaire emissions? We welcome two amazing guests from the climate justice movement who were influencing the Glasgow climate…
IS GREEN GROWTH A CONVENIENT LIE? – with Jason Hickel, Economic Anthropologist
By Elizabeth Njambi How fighting inequality and beating climate change means we must end our addiction to economic growth and fast. We’re asking: How are inequality, climate breakdown and growth linked? Why is green growth an impossibility? If rich nations must stop growing, what does…