19th September 2024
The Anthropocene is the age where humanity is Earth’s greatest geological agent – so why is it always left out of environmental discourse? The Earth is four and a half billion years old; but modern humans have only been here for 200,000 years. In the geological sense of time, human presence on this planet seems ...
19th September 2024
The 1.5°C target is failing to stop global warming – the Paris Agreement has failed us. November 30th 2015, Paris, France. 196 parties gathered for negotiations with the aim of creating an international treaty on climate change. Two weeks later, on December 12th, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) concluded, with the announcement of the ...
19th September 2024
The tar sands project is detrimental to the planet, and harmful to Indigenous Canadian communities. It is easy to dismiss environmental changes as purely the recent advancement of technology and fossil fuel production. But as a sociologist, I have spent my academic years learning about the impact that colonialism has on the environment and the ...
19th September 2024
Governments around the world deal with record temperatures and heat deaths in the hottest year on record. Last year was the hottest year on record, with multiple cities shattering temperature records, even during the winter months. With countries around the world, particularly in the Global South, suddenly dealing with extreme heat, there has been a ...
19th September 2024
Environmental activists are dubbed by right-wing media as ‘extreme’ – as governments fail the planet, we should encourage this ‘extreme’ activism. The dangers associated with climate change are undeniable. According to the UN’s ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ report from 2023 harmful emissions need to be cut by almost half before 2030. The UK government has promised ...
19th September 2024
NHS staffing crises and budget restraints have meant services are struggling to meet reproductive healthcare demand. In 2024 you would think that basic reproductive healthcare is comparatively easy to find, readily available, at a time that suits you. Unfortunately, you’re wrong. Long-acting reversible contraception, or LARC, is available on the NHS – it comes in ...
19th September 2024
Exploring the moral principles of true crime. I push open the double doors and recoil at the sound of its unoiled hinges. I’ve escaped my first arduous hospitality shift. The mingling of adrenaline I’ve been running on for the past nine hours, and the chorus of angry chefs cursing in various languages still lingers in ...
19th September 2024
A feminist case for an endless ‘brat girl’ summer. I am sitting across from my flatmate as she recounts her week of binge drinking, and subsequent beer fear over what she may have said to her new work colleagues. “Oh well, brat summer,” she shrugs. The term ‘brat’ has taken the internet by storm, led ...
19th September 2024
The Eco-Hub has created an accessible, affordable and sustainable space for students and staff to meet. The Glasgow University Environmental Sustainability Team (GUEST) have recently launched an on-campus sustainability hub. As announced on Instagram, the Eco-Hub is set to remain open year-round, from 10am-6pm, Monday – Friday, in Room 206 of the Boyd Orr Building. ...
19th September 2024
We are no longer prudes, we are delusional. If I had a nickel for every time someone has found my vibrator, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice. Picture this: you are sitting, thinking about what on earth are you going to write for the first print edition ...
