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2026

  • Corporations Are Using Carbon Credits to Exploit Refugees (Jacobin)

2025

  • The wrong kind of climate action: what if net zero is making it worse? (DOPE)
  • The Broken Promises of the Green Transition (The Jacobin)
  • Port Talbot, one year on: steelworks closure shows why public is losing trust in net zero (The Conversation)
  • The climate squeeze (The Ecologist)
  • The installation economy and the endless horizon of low-waged ‘green’ work (Autonomy Blog)
  • Climate capitalism won’t save us (The Ecologist)
  • Spanish blackout sparks disinformation (The Ecologist)
  • BP’s Climate Backtrack Is an Admission It Has Failed (Novara Media)
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  • Trump’s quixotic fossil fuel agenda (The Ecologist)

2024

  • A new environmental movement is quietly shaking up UK politics (openDemocracy)
  • Nimbys Are Good, Actually (Novara Media)
  • Refugee Environmental Protection Fund: fix or fiction? (The Ecologist)

2023

  • Emissions inequality is getting worse – here’s how to end the reign of the ultra-polluters (The Conversation)
  • Yellow Vests and climate policy tests (The Ecologist)
  • Mapping the catastrophic imaginary: The organisation of environmental politics through climate change
  • Britain Already Has Its Own Climate Refugees (Novara Media)
  • Ecocide in Teesside (The Ecologist)

2022

  • Losing it at COP27 (The Ecologist)
  • What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win? (Novara Media)

2021

  • Will Climate Change Itself Derail Plans to Reduce Emissions? (Novara Media)
  • The Green Transition is Already Underway – And It’s Not Looking Pretty (Novara Media)
  • On the Frontlines of Fear: Migration and Climate Change in the Local Context of Sardinia, Italy
  • Green jobs at the carbon border? (The Ecologist)
  • What green jobs are they talking about? (The Ecologist)
  • The climate supercycle (The Ecologist)
  • What happened to our last chance? (The Ecologist)

2020

  • Containing climate change: The new governmental strategies of catastrophic environments

2019

  • A Green New Deal Between Whom and For What? (Viewpoint Magazine)
  • UN Climate Action Summit missed a key ingredient: climate action (The Conversation)
  • Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federci (Pluto Press)
  • Global inequality is 25% higher than it would have been in a climate-stable world (The Conversation)
  • Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor (The Conversation)

2018

  • Climate action must now focus on the global rich and their corporations (The Conversation)
  • The government’s ‘green’ industrial revolution: not green, not revolutionary (Plan C)

2017

  • Refusing Survival: What Happens If We Don’t Save the World From Climate Change? (Novara Media)
  • Climate Apocalypse Vs. Liberal Utopianism: The Arguments For and Against the End of the World (Novara Media)
  • Refusing the World: Silence, Commoning, and the Anthropocene
  • Counting Carbon: Calculative Activism and Slippery Infrastructure

2016 – 2008

  • Organising against the end of the world: the praxis of ecological catastrophe
  • COPing out: what will it take to overcome the environmental movement’s impasse? (Novara Media)
  • Dancing on the Grave: Salvage, The Walking Dead, and the End of Days (Salvage Magazine)
  • Starting from the Social Wage – Care work and the Commons (The Commoner)
  • Revenge of the Remainder
  • Hope Against Hope: A Necessary Betrayal
  • Bang to Rights (Mute Magazine)

UPCOMING BOOK EVENTS

London: 30 October: Unite the Union Offices
Sheffield: 10 November - University of Sheffield
Leeds: 11 November: Hyde Park Book Club
Sunderland: 12 November: Pop Recs
Edinburgh: 17 November Lighthouse Bookshop
Glasgow: 19 November: Unison Offices
Bristol: 25 November - coming soon

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