State of Power – Energy and Transition
When I first proposed the idea to TNI of putting together an annual encyclopedia of power in 2012, I didn't imagine I would be its editor 12 years later and [...]
Wars are closing the window for climate action
My latest op-ed with Deborah Burton for Climate Home News The failure of the richest countries to meet their 2009 commitment to provide $100 billion in climate finance to impoverished [...]
Oped in Al Jazeera: It’s high time to defuse the military carbon bomb
I just had this op-ed published in Al Jazeera: It’s high time to defuse the military carbon bomb The annual United Nations climate talks, known as the Conference of Parties [...]
The armed lifeboat: the dangers of militarising climate adaptation
This article was published in Luxemburg magazine in summer 2022 On 7 February 2022, Arizona’s attorney general, Mark Brnovich, released a legal opinion that declared that the refugees trying to [...]
Cache Creek at the a crossroads
By Juliette Beck This morning beginning at 8:30AM the Yolo County Planning Commission is holding a public hearing on a proposed gravel mining project along lower Cache Creek, located three [...]
Our Humanity Is on the Line: Blog from COP26
By Juliette Beck (Part 2)Glasgow — a working class city of a million inhabitants located on the west coast of Scotland, known for being cold and damp, has given us [...]
COP26 – Change Happens When Movements Rise
By Juliette Beck, Wales, United Kingdom (Part 1). — As she scampered down a rain-slicked, grassy hill to ford a gurgling stream in Devon, England, Mary Light, my husband’s 76-year-old [...]
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 [...]