Climate justice

Patrick Bond: Climate justice movements need to hit Trump where it hurts most

Posted on 7 July 20176 July 2017 by entitlecollective

By Ethemcan Turhan and Cem İskender Aydın * Political economist and climate justice expert Patrick Bond comments on the prospects for a progressive anti-capitalist agenda in the face of increasing alt-right populism, xenophobia, climate denialism and economic-political exceptionalism. So we are back to square one: Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement in early June 2017 has … Continue reading Patrick Bond: Climate justice movements need to hit Trump where it hurts most

The Politics of Climate Justice at COP21

Posted on 17 December 201517 December 2015 by entitlecollective

Fernando Tormos offers a look inside the advocacy and activist efforts of the transnational environmental movement at COP21, reflecting on different forms of diversity within the movement.

Soma, Ermenek, Yırca: Can anti-coal activists defend coal miners and olive farmers?

Posted on 12 January 201517 February 2015 by entitlecollective

by Ethemcan Turhan* The coal-mining town of Soma in the western Aegean region of Turkey hardly made headlines until last May. A mining disaster that took the lives of 301 mine workers in Soma on 14 May 2014 brought forward the country’s fragile mix of social injustice, lack of occupational safety, and a fossil-fuel-dependent energy … Continue reading Soma, Ermenek, Yırca: Can anti-coal activists defend coal miners and olive farmers?