CLIMATE CHANGE, DISASTERS AND DISEASE

Posted on August 1, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged cholera, climate change, cyclone Idai, deforestation, disease, DRC, Ebola, extreme weather, featured, food security, hygiene, malaria, poverty, sanitation, Uganda, water sanitation, WHO.

by Gunnar Eigener

Between 2013 and 2016, the Ebola virus raged through western Africa, killing over 11,000 people. A lack of preparedness, underfunding for health facilities and the stigmatization of infected individuals led to the spreading and an inability to combat the virus sooner. Nevertheless, it managed to be contained. Now, however, it risks spreading again, this time reappearing in the Democratic Republic of Congo and moving towards Uganda. Having already claimed more than 1,500 lives, the promise by world leaders that this would not happen again is ringing hollow. The actions that were supposed to speak louder than words have failed to materialise and once again, the rest of the world looks on while Africans die.

EXTINCTION REBELLION – HEADING FOR EXCLUSION AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

Posted on April 13, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged air pollution, apathy, capitalism, climate change, deforestation, earth, environment, extinction, Extinction Rebellion, extreme weather, featured, government, nature, neoliberalism, non-violent direct action, norwich, protest, Rebel for Life, UEA, XR.

by Craig Wilson

This year’s War of Words – The Progressive Media Conference welcomed a panel of four activists to discuss direct action and concerns surrounding the current activist scene. While noting that the Extinction Rebellion (XR) is in some way appreciated, one major theme of the discussion was that XR is failing to take along vulnerable and minority groups. There’s a feeling that the movement is too white and middle-class, and is unsettlingly weak on climate injustice messaging. As someone on the radical left but also actively on board with XR locally, I wanted to write this piece to largely reaffirm those criticisms, but from an insider’s viewpoint. Far from being single-minded and unreflexive, discussions within the group show that XR is very much seeking to learn and grow.Continue Reading

REBEL FOR LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH EXTINCTION REBELLION NORWICH

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged air pollution, apathy, capitalism, climate change, deforestation, earth, environment, extinction, Extinction Rebellion, extreme weather, featured, government, nature, neoliberalism, non-violent direct action, norwich, protest, Rebel for Life, UEA, XR.

by Jess O’Dwyer

The Earth is our nurturer, inspirer and protector, yet we are actively and consciously driving ourselves towards her (and our) oblivion. Extreme weather is the new normal: we’re chopping down trees faster than we’re planting them and we’re still burning fossil fuels despite the common knowledge that they are damaging to the atmosphere and are causing our own children to struggle to breathe.

SOMETHING STINKS IN THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS (AND IT’S NOT JUST TOBY YOUNG)

Posted on January 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged Boots, BPP, Carl Lygo, climate change, contraception, David Palfreyman, deforestation, degree awarding powers, Elizabeth Fagan, Equalities Act, featured, free schools, free speech, funding, government, HEFCE, higher education, HSBC, jo johnson, Katja Hall, marketisation, Martin Coleman, media, Michael Barber, Monisha Shah, NUS, office for students, OxCHEPS, politics, regulation, Rose Bruford College, Ruth Carlson, Simon Levine, Steve West, student representation, Surrey University, Toby Young, Tories, UWE Bristol.

by Robyn Banks

This week, the government took the turn of the year as an opportunity to quietly announce the makeup of the board of the Office for Students (OfS), the new higher education ‘market regulator’ set to replace the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). Naturally, it didn’t go unnoticed, and much has been said about the selection of Toby Young, infamous Tory party supporter. His appointment and the makeup of the rest of the board shows the absurdity at the heart of the body Jo Johnson has created, and why it will struggle to be taken seriously.

BIALOWIEZA FOREST

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Bialowieza, Brexit, capitalism, deforestation, ECJ, environment, European Comission, experts, Greenpeace, logging, Michael Gove, nationalism, Poland.

By Olivia Hanks

What happens if a member state of the European Union refuses to comply with a European Court ruling? Incredibly, the answer is that nobody knows: it has never happened, though financial sanctions including the withdrawal of all subsidies are theoretically possible. But following Poland’s open defiance of an ECJ order to cease logging in the ancient Białowieża forest, suspicions that the EU is essentially toothless when it comes to law enforcement are about to be tested like never before.Continue Reading

THE AMAZON

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged biodiversity, BNDES, Brazil, carbon, carbon sink, climate change, co2, deforestation, drought, environment, indigenous rights, nature, planet, rainforest, sustainability, The Amazon, World Bank.

by Gunnar Eigener

The Amazon contains just over half of the world’s remaining rainforest. Home to some 390 billion trees, one in ten living plant and animal species and annually absorbing approximately 1.5 gigaton of carbon dioxide, this rainforest is one of the last few significant land carbon sinks. The effects of climate change were demonstrated when the Amazon briefly lost its ability to absorb carbon dioxide during severe droughts in 2005 and 2010.

The Amazon has long been a poster-child for the environmental movement and its importance has never ceased, although other causes have taken some of the coverage and media interest away. The time has come to refocus on the Amazon before the damage becomes irreparable. The consequences of losing it would be globally catastrophic.Continue Reading

LAND RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND THE GLOBAL GREEN MOVEMENT

Posted on April 21, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Ade Zuchri, Africa, African Green Revolution, African Greens Federation, agriculture, BK Dalit, conservation, DAkar, deforestation, Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, farming, Frank Habineza, GEN, Global Greens, Global Greens Congress, GM, GMOs, Green, Green Party, Greens2017, indigenous, indigenous activism, Indonesia, Indonesian Green Union, Joko Widodo, Kofia Annan, land clearances, land rights, monoculture, monsanto, Nepal, Nepali Greens, Papa Meissa Dieng, Rwanda, Samtra, Scotland, Scottish Parliament, Senegal, Sumatran orangutan, Sumatran rhino.

By Olivia Hanks

It is at the heart of our housing crisis, provides our food, and is still the principal determiner of wealth in the UK. Yet most of us in England do not spend very much time thinking about land. So it was an exciting and stimulating experience to attend a panel discussion at the recent Global Greens congress in Liverpool about land rights and how they form a vital part of the green movement worldwide.

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #shutdown, animal produce, anthropocene, biodiversity, black bodies, black lives matter, blmuk, brown bodies, capitalism, climate change, climate crisis, climate migrants, co2 emissions, contaminated water, crisis of race, deforestation, development, ecology, environmental racism, ethnicity, Flint, g20, holocene, industrial growth, industrialisation, london, london city airport, mass extinction, migrants, oil, paris climate change, plastic pollutants, race, racism, sea levels, theresa may, ukblm, working class.

by Emmanuel Agu

Perhaps not in its inception, though undeniably, the climate change crisis is one of race. The protest today launched by the UK chapter of the Black Lives Matter (BLMUK) stands as a call to arms in opposition of worrying statistics of the UK’s Influence on both global climate change and the local effects — highlighting the disproportionate nature of these adverse affects on communities of colour in the west and world wide. Continue Reading

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CLIMATE CHANGE, DISASTERS AND DISEASE

EXTINCTION REBELLION – HEADING FOR EXCLUSION AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

REBEL FOR LIFE: AN INTERVIEW WITH EXTINCTION REBELLION NORWICH

SOMETHING STINKS IN THE OFFICE FOR STUDENTS (AND IT’S NOT JUST TOBY YOUNG)

BIALOWIEZA FOREST

THE AMAZON

LAND RIGHTS ACTIVISM AND THE GLOBAL GREEN MOVEMENT

THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS IS A CRISIS OF RACE

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