For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity ā¦ we must work out new concepts and try to set afoot a new man.…
Infinite extraction and consumption are impossible on a planet with finite resources. Tackling the climate crisis demands that we re-examine our relationships…
While the first wave of the revolutions ended in defeat, it was sure to be back in Sudan and now Algeria with enormous and persistent protest movements
āWe woke up and you will payā
The recent protests show that Tunisia is still a cauldron of popular resistance against neoliberal and neo-colonial attacks on the countryās sovereignty
Kerkennah islanders are faced with a double threat to their existence: rising sea water levels and the extractive operations of fossil fuel companies
Here, as elsewhere in Africa, economic neglect and despair at corrupt authoritarian regimes compels the continentās young people to risk death to escape to Europe
Advocates for benign-sounding clean energy export projects like Desertec need to be careful theyāre not supporting a new ārenewable energy grabā
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