Alternative Citizenship Test
What is the point of a citizenship test? I know the US is not the only one to do it, but it’s a strange way of testing whether you are [...]
COVID Capitalism Webinar series
As the COVID-19 pandemic transformed the world in early 2020, I initiated and coordinated a series of webinars with leading activists and thinkers from around the world to analyse its [...]
Exposing the Davos Agenda
Emerging from my long work on State of Power (nine editions so far), I have also been supporting TNI's corporate power team to put a spotlight on Davos and particularly [...]
Davis Climate Strike
I supported the amazing youth in Davis who brought out an unprecedented 1000 on the global climate strike on September 20 2019. Here is a video I put together with [...]
Podcast series with Green Dreamer: Why climate is not a security issue
I was happy to do a two-part podcast series with Kamea Chayne of Green Dreamer that explored some of the themes of the Secure and Dispossessed book and my work [...]
Betting on a crash: Confronting those speculating on our future
(I wrote this piece for a magazine in the UK called Consented) It is hard to imagine reading the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report and feeling energised [...]
Border Wars
It is clear in recent years that demonisation of migrants and border militarisation has become the totem policy for mobilising political support by reactionary parties. And in the context of [...]
Climate change, capitalism and the military
Ever more people are connecting the dots between our economic system and ecological destruction but rarely make the link to militarism and security. As climate change will dramatically increase instability [...]
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.
https://youtu.be/BAVT2ej35lE 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 [...]
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 [...]
Climate change, militarism and war documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-m7BsUtjO4 I highly recommend this short documentary on climate change, militarism and war that features myself and also April Humble who wrote for The Secure and the Dispossessed as well [...]
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 [...]
The Secure and the Dispossessed Book Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuBFXF3nlE In this short video, Nick Buxton, co-editor of ‘The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World’, discusses the themes of his new [...]
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 [...]
Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, ex-Greek finance minister
For TNI’s State of Power report 2016, I held an interview with former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis who held that the nation-state is dead and democracy in the EU [...]
London book launch
On 25 November 2015, we had a great book launch and debate at the Free Word Centre. You can listen to it live here! Speakers at this event included: Ryvka [...]