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Extinction Rebellion, erupted in 2018, denounces the political inertia and obfuscation of “truth” that permeate climate change debates. Louise Knops explores how the movement channels affect at a pivotal moment in which climate has become a concern for everyone. Looking forward, she asks how we can move from insurrection to renewal.
As the energy transition debate continues, land-intensive extraction processes continue to displace villages across the German lignite belt. Paula Castro and Hannah Porada analyse the experiences of villagers near the Garzweiler mine in the Rhineland. Faced with a resettlement procedure, villagers have mobilised to fight both for their homes and for more ambition in German energy policy.
To curtail the spread of COVID-19, much of the world’s movement has come to a halt and many lives have moved online in an enforced break with a long period in which the pace of life was growing faster. Though proposals such as the four-day week struggled in 2019, changing our relationships with time and work remains a key task for progressive forces everywhere.
Ecologism as a school of thought emerges as a critique of industrialism, the ideology that binds liberalism, conservativism, and socialism. It recognises nature as the basis for the human’s existence and development. Two decades into a 21st century already defined by the crisis of the human in nature, the ecologisation of human society is an urgent imperative.