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Published in: TransformationWhat we choose to resist
With a climate change denier in the White House, what are the prospects for the Paris Agreement on climate change?
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Published in: TransformationWhen a tiger has no value
The quest for profit is transforming the natural world. Can it be halted?
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Published in: TransformationThe rise of veganism in politics
On World Vegan Day it’s time to recognize that veganism isn’t just a fashion statement. The decision to boycott...
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Published in: TransformationFear of a living planet
By refusing to recognize that the Earth is alive we implicitly endorse the worldview that enables our destruction of...
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Published in: TransformationClimate justice meets racism: Standing Rock was decades in the making
The militarized response to activists opposing the Dakota Access pipeline—and the Standing Rock Sioux’s fierce...
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Published in: TransformationCatastrophism is as much an obstacle to addressing climate change as denial
Is our confidence in the unifying power of fear obstructing action to combat global warming?
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Published in: TransformationWildlife conservationists need to break out of their Stockholm syndrome
Instead of fighting a destructive economic system, international conservation NGOs are bonding with its brutality.
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Published in: TransformationLooking back: 12 of Transformation's greatest articles
I'm leaving after three years at openDemocracy. Here are some of my favourite, must-read articles from writers to...
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Published in: TransformationZoos are the problem, not the solution to animal conservation
Instead of imprisoning animals for profit, why not support shared efforts in coexistence?
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Published in: TransformationWhat's happening to the millions of people displaced by climate change?
Weather-related hazards are displacing millions of people globally. The World Humanitarian Summit was a start, but...
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Published in: TransformationSocially constructed silence? Protecting policymakers from the unthinkable.
The scientific community is profoundly uncomfortable with the storm of political controversy that climate research...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKerkennah: on the frontline of resistance to the fossil fuel industry in Tunisia
The effects of climate change and neoliberalism converge in Kerkennah in the worst possible way – but the islands...
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Published in: TransformationFour ways mainstream animal rights movements are oppressive
Animal rights campaigns like PETA care more for animals than they do for the lives of marginalized people.
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Published in: TransformationCarry on flying: why activists should take to the skies
Protesting against air travel might displace attention away from the actions required to reduce carbon emissions at...
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Published in: TransformationGoing out, I found I was really going in: John Muir’s spiritual and political journey
The story of a pioneering naturalist stands as one of the best examples of an individual’s spiritual awakening...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWho gets to decide how the media talks about climate change?
If you want to get inside how the media frames and shapes our collective understanding of climate change, there’s...
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Published in: TransformationCOAL: the Vagina Monologues of climate change
Culture change takes us to some dark and painful places, yet art and music remind us that love and beauty are vital...
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Published in: TransformationThe environmental movement: a blockbuster in the making?
Stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things are the building blocks of transformation, but they have to be...
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Published in: Transformation100% renewable energy: what we can do in 10 years
It will take at least three decades to completely leave behind fossil fuels. But we can do it. The first step is to...
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Published in: TransformationThe puzzle of low oil prices—has the race to beat the carbon bubble already started?
The post-carbon world is fast emerging from the shell of the old. Even Saudi Arabia is planning for it.