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We are great fans of the Uneven Earth newsletter, as an overview of the green movement and its biggest ideas. But rather than cherrypick from the latest edition, and as a way of encouraging you to subscribe to them, it seemed more useful just to lay out their curation in full below, a gift in the best Xmas spirit.
Top 5 articles to read
Remembering the Ogoni Nine. In 1995, nine activists from the Ogoni region of Nigeria were hanged after a campaign against oil giant Shell – decades later, their struggle for environmental justice is more relevant than ever.
Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary
What would it look like if we treated climate change as an actual emergency?
News you might’ve missed
Land and life: Feudalism and environmental change in the Philippines
Greenland’s government bans oil drilling, leads Indigenous resistance to extractive capitalism
Connecting the dots between B.C.’s floods, landslides and clearcut logging. And The cost of waiting
Lee Maracle, revolutionary Indigenous author and poet, dead at 71 Also read: Inspiring and uncompromising, Lee Maracle could raise you up or eviscerate you. Read one of her essays: The lost days of Columbus
Indigenous and decolonial perspectives on the future
Indigenous cultures must not be forced to bear the brunt of global climate adaptation
Rethinking the apocalypse: An Indigenous anti-futurist manifesto
Taking the fiction out of science fiction: A conversation about Indigenous futurisms
Also read: An Old New World. When one people’s sci-fi is another people’s past
COP26
At U.N.’s COP26 climate summit, Indigenous voices are calling for more than lip service
Never mind aid, never mind loans: what poor nations are owed is reparations
Technology fetishism reigns at COP26. It’ll keep us burning fossil fuels.
Q&A: Can ‘nature-based solutions’ help address climate change?
Where we’re at: analysis
The forgotten oil ads that told us climate change was nothing
Western monopoly of climate science is creating an eco-deficit culture
Will climate change itself derail plans to reduce emissions?
Ruptured worlds: a photo essay on the Lower Se San 2 Dam, Cambodia
Dead white man’s clothes. In Accra, Ghana, imported second-hand clothing—or “dead white man’s clothes”—represents a massive industry with complex environmental, social, and economic implications.
Just think about it…
Forgive humans, not oil companies. It might seem like prison abolition and fossil fuel abolition have nothing in common, but they couldn’t be more related.
Do we need to work? The history of what we call work.
Congested, contested, and competitive: Are we running out of room in outer space?
The need to trespass: let people in to protect nature, says guerrilla botanist
On technological colonialism…
…and liberatory technologies
On the movement for the right to repair: Opening this article voids warranty
Activists are designing mesh networks to deploy during civil unrest
Degrowth
Perpetual growth is an impossible fantasy – even if we wanted it
Infinite economic growth caused the environmental crisis. Degrowth will help us fix it
Sand and gravel: Rethinking aggregate consumption and distribution
Cities and radical municipalism
Sci-fi and utopian imaginings
Artists must confront the climate crisis – we must write as if these are the last days. “If you knew you were at the last days of the human story, what would you write?”
Shifting the narrative. Music and storytelling for a future earth.
Kim Stanley Robinson on science fiction and reclaiming science for the Left
Resources
Global Indigenous newsletter: Chemicals, climate and consultation
Managing mental health in the age of climate change: Diagnosing climate disorder, Diagnosing climate trauma, 7 resources to help manage climate anxiety, and Mental health professionals on processing climate anxiety
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