Simon Pirani

A review of Road to Nowhere: what Silicon Valley gets wrong about the future of transportation, by Paris Marx.

Oil companies, dictators and greenwashers captured the process at COP27 more effectively than ever.

Scientists and researchers admit despair at the failure of politicians to deliver meaningful climate emission reductions.

Fossil fuel dependency is driving up the cost of living.

How the Silvertown tunnel reinforces deadly climate doublethink.

The implementation of the Silvertown Tunnel project has steamrolled democracy and will pollute the local area and trash the climate.

Social movements need to mobilise now and unite people hammered by rising energy bills with protesters who fear climate breakdown.

Germany’s decision to halt the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline may cause long-term damage to Russia – but Putin doesn’t care.

COP26 is long forgotten but the legacy of oil exploitation will last for ever.

Kazakhstan ten years after the Zhanaozen massacre: oil workers’ fight to organise goes on.

Now is the time to fundamentally transform how our societies produce and distribute energy.

The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.

Oil workers stage biggest industrial action since the general strike of 1978-79 that helped toppled the Shah’s regime.

An impassioned plea to the Mayor of London to chance his mind about the Silvertown Tunnel - based on local and global climate fears.

The false narrative that population growth is a key driver of ecological crisis accuses and puts the onus on people in the global south.

Climate breakdown is driven by industrial production, production by machines controlled by people. But can those very people demand a new, low carbon production?

Review of The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet, by Michael E. Mann.

London is pressing ahead with a £2 billion climate-trashing tunnel project just as UK prepares to host COP26 international climate negotiations.

The UK Government focus on electric cars is opposed by researchers of climate science, transport policy, engineering and urban planning.

China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.

Low carbon? Hydrogen greenhouse emissions globally are more than twice that of the entire UK economy.

A just transition to a low carbon economy should involve oil companies paying more tax and energy workers having more say.

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) systems put more greenhouse gases into the air than they take out.

A plan to pipe hydrogen, instead of natural gas, into millions of UK homes is being pushed hard by the fossil fuel industry.