United in Struggle Against the Climate Crisis – for System Change NOW!
More than 6 million people took part in protests and strikes demanding global action to end the climate crisis, during a “Global Week for...
Save the Earth – REBEL!
In May 1959, Science News warned that there would be 25% warming of the earth by the year 2000 compared to 1850 (at the...
Climate Change and Capitalism
Capitalism is causing poor people across the world to suffer the devastating effects of climate change. Locally we have our own peculiar narration to...
Floods and Climate Change
From Katsina to Bayelsa, from Kwara to Adamawa, hundreds of thousands of people have suffered from the recent flooding. This is what climate change...
The Threat of Climate Change Remains
In the last three years global carbon dioxide emissions have barely increased and they were slightly lower last year. However, the impact of existing...
Climate Change – makes socialism essential!
Despite President Trump’s claims that it is a Chinese plot, climate change is real and is already having major impacts across the world. We...
Paris Climate Change Deal – too little!
by Drew Povey and Segun Ogun
Most governments in the world signed up to the Paris agreement in mid-December. This claimed a goal of keeping...
SYSTEM CHANGE AND NOT CLIMATE CHANGE
Together We Can Stop Climate Change
Climate change is due to the activities of major companies, mainly those based in the industrialised countries. In...
Extractive Industries: Workers and Communities Face Hazards
by Segun Ogun
The for-profit logic that guides extractive industries places workers in that sector and the communities where extractive activities are carried out in...
Shell pays for oil spill in Bodo
by Nnamdi Ikeagu
The major oil company, Shell reached an out of court settlement to pay £55m (N15.7bn) to the 15,600 fishermen of Bodo community,...
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