James Meadway

The increased demand for minerals for renewable energy infrastructure is driving the concentration of capital in the mining sector.

Could climate insurance disasters provoke a wider financial meltdown?

The United States no longer depends on the Middle East for fossil fuels - changing the context for the most recent conflict between Israel and Gaza.

The recent recurring ecological shocks may finally be provoking some fresh thinking amongst the world’s elite policymakers.

Economists in the mainstream have not even begun to understand the implications of ecological systems collapse.

We need a new economics that centres our dependence on the environment to understand the coming instability of climate breakdown.

Widespread economic growth has required immense consumption of the planet’s resources, particularly in the form of fossil fuel. So what is the alternative?

Coronavirus was the result of capital's incursion into nature - and will have a profound impact on capitalism itself. Omicron shows the crisis is far from over.

Conventional economic modelling is far too sanguine about the future given the impacts of climate breakdown.

Pre-covid life is unlikely to return in an environmentally unstable world. But our economic theories have yet to adapt to this new normal.

For anyone who believes in the ineffable wisdom of 'free' markets, the current sinkaway oil price takes some explaining, writes James Meadway. Saudi Arabia's big gamble that it could put US shale oil out of business by over-pumping has now collided with China's falling demand for energy. Result: oil producers everywhere are swimming in red ink. Where will it all end?