Defying dystopia: Building the climate future we need
I wrote this piece for Roar Magazine in December 2017 and it has been perhaps my most shared piece of writing ever. One kind academic and activist wrote to me…
Cambio Climático S.A.
Gracias a los esfuerzos del equipo de FUHEM Ecosocial, una alucinante instituto en Madrid, el libro Secure and Dispossessed está traducido a castellano. En Junio, tuve el privilegio de hacer…
What could Davis and Rotary Club do on climate change
Here is a talk I gave recently to the Davis Rotary Club. Thank you. Honored to be invited. Rotarians have a proud history of serving communities, doing good and also…
The military, corporations and climate change – podcast
I did a long interview with the great KWMR Post Carbon Radio team on many of the themes in our book, The Secure and the Dispossessed. It covered a lot…
Last line of defense: Are the US military going to save us from Trump climate denial?
(Published in Truth Out) The US military may be the last defender of climate science within the Trump administration, but don’t expect the Pentagon to fight for climate justice. Preparing…
Climate justice in an age of Trump
This is a transcript of a speech I gave at a community gathering on environmental justice held in Davis, California on the 8th January 2017. It’s been 2 months since…
Securing whose future? Militarism in an age of climate crisis
For anyone concerned with militarism, news of the terrorist attacks in Brussels brought a familiar sense of dread. We ached as we hear the stories of more innocent lives lost,…
COP21 charades: Spin, lies and real hope in Paris
The Paris COP21 talks failed to deliver a meaningful result, judged from either a scientific or social justice point-of-view. However it did reveal the presence of an increasingly sophisticated and…
How does Davos Man plan to tackle inequality
(Published in Open Democracy; co-written with David Sogge). It’s become an annual tradition. Every year, Oxfam publishes shocking statistics on inequality just days before the global elite gather at the…