30th June 2024
University of Glasgow student Iris Duane talks environmental plans for Glasgow North, anti-austerity policies, and the mixed reaction to her candidacy. At just twenty-one years old, Politics student Iris Duane is running as the candidate for the Scottish Green Party in Glasgow North; she hopes to become the first transgender woman of colour in Parliament. ...
20th May 2024
Will the decline in environmental protests kill the planet? 2019 and 2020 saw mass protests in support of climate action. Movements such as Fridays for Future and the Youth Climate Strike captured the public eye through international media. However, it now seems, from a national to local level, there is far less environmental protesting. The ...
18th May 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 ...
18th May 2024
A deeper look into the basic concepts of environmentalism In recent years, discussions surrounding climate change have escalated from murmurs to urgent calls for action. The impacts of a warming planet are becoming increasingly evident, from rising temperatures to extreme weather events, yet with such a pressing and complex issue, the basics are often misunderstood ...
18th May 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 ...
18th May 2024
In a crucial year of elections, the economy is set to kill the environment. This year is hugely important in determining the fate of both global politics and the environment. The people of both established and emerging geopolitical powers will have the chance to vote on their future, and their choices will impact the generations ...