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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThis should be Scotland’s rewilding electionLife is draining from our hills and glens. We must use the coming Holyrood election to change course, before it’s too late
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWe're hiring: fellowship focused on the Brazilian AmazonApply to be part of openDemocracy's Latin American section and develop an investigative project on the Amazon and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National risk assessments: a political vaccine against the next disaster?How do we prevent and prepare for future disasters, natural or man-made? Introducing National Risk Assessments as a...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaEcuador’s pro-mining politics dealt a blow by Indigenous, green movementIn a historic referendum, more than 80% of the electorate in Cuenca, Ecuador’s third-largest city, voted to ban...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionOf course Cumbria’s proposed coal mine is popular locally. The government offers no green alternativeIn an area scarred by decades of deindustralisation and reeling from the economic fallout of COVID-19, the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Barbarism or solidarity’ at stake at Ecuador elections, says indigenous presidential candidateYaku Pérez, the leader of indigenous party Pachakutik, is running on a green platform – but can he reach outside of...
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Published in: ourEconomyTo fix the US, President Biden must listen to those who put him in powerAn unprecedented grassroots mobilisation removed Donald Trump from the White House. The incoming president would be...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaVenezuela sends oxygen and doctors to the Brazilian AmazonAt the same time, Mexico cedes vaccines to poor countries while the U.S. and Russia refuse to join COVAX.
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismPrecarity, populism, and prospects for a green democratic transformationThe proper Left alternative to the class struggle is subverting capitalism by mobilizing an ever wider and more...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lead poisoning risks in a Greek refugee camp: environmental racism as a dangerous new normal?Once-shocking drownings in the Mediterranean have become dangerously normalized. Will environmental racism become...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionEurope in 2021Portugal assumes the EU presidency at a crucial moment. Amid a fluid scenario and systemic risks, the way Europe...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionRoosevelt’s ‘four freedoms’ weren't just an American ideaOn the anniversary of the wartime US President’s era-defining speech, the world must once again be rebuilt – but we...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismIs Left populism possible?We need to fight precarity now and to ensure that, in the process, we retain and enhance the best of our...
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Published in: Rethinking PopulismA world to win and a planet to saveLeft populism and socialist strategy under Corbyn – how could this prepare us for the Green New Deal? In response to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionDonald Trump, the scorpion, and the assault on the shining city on the hillThe assault on the Capitol shook American democracy for a few hours. The lesson democracies should learn is: Beware...
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Published in: ourEconomyWhy 2021 is humanity’s make-or-break moment on climate breakdownCOVID-19 and climate change are two sides of the same coin. To overcome both we must confront their root cause: an...
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Published in: 50.50Threats and murder won’t stop South Africa’s environmental activistsWomen are at the forefront of anti-mining disputes, fighting powerful corporations and state interests, while trying...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHonduras: Caravan of the damnedRecent hurricanes come on top of a desperate economic situation and push more Hondurans northwards, Yet the US aid...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Universal anxietyNothing, certainly not language, escapes the bug.
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Published in: ourEconomyStep aside progressive patriotism – intergalactic humanism has arrivedNationalism will always be racist, no matter how ‘progressive’ it is. What would it mean to imagine a world beyond...
