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The Meaning of Hope Julia Thorley

Julia Thorley — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:00:45 +0000

I’m struggling with the concept of hope at the moment. Is it an ideological con? My dictionary defines the verb ‘to hope’ as: to cherish a desire that something good will happen with some expectation of success or fulfilment. I might as well just cross my fingers. We hear a lot about the value [...]

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LLAMAMIENTO POR LA TIERRA DESDE EL MUNDO DE LAS LETRASPEN Català

PEN Català — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:01:54 +0000

Llevamos meses asistiendo a una sucesión de récords de temperatura en todo el mundo y a un rápido aumento de fenómenos climáticos extremos. Los datos científicos nos confirman que no son incidentes aislados: los últimos ocho años han sido los más cálidos en el conjunto de la Tierra desde que hay registros, y la [...]

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CALL FOR THE EARTH FROM THE LITERARY WORLDPEN Català

PEN Català — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:00:56 +0000

We have been witnessing a succession of temperature records around the world for months and a rapid increase in extreme weather events. Scientific data confirm that these are not isolated incidents: the last eight years have been the warmest on Earth as a whole since there are records, and the current temperature is already [...]

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Occupy TimeBarbara Leckie

Barbara Leckie — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 08:00:26 +0000

A week ago the world outside my window in Ottawa was covered in snow. But today—in the month when people make resolutions, seek to realize resolutions, or reject resolutions—it is raining. I can hear the rain as I write. It would be a soothing sound if it did not also sound like the chronicle [...]

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Bill McGuire’s letter to Fritz Vahrenholt of the GWPF

Bill McGuire — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 07:00:44 +0000

Dear Dr Fritz Vahrenholt, You will be aware of Steve Baker’s decision to stand down from his position as Trustee in order to take up his government post unmarred by an association with the Global Warming Policy Foundation. I write to you in earnest to ask you to consider doing the same. You must [...]

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Monique Roffey’s Letter to Kathy Gyngell of the GWPF

Monique Roffey — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:00:56 +0000

12th September, 2022 Dear Kathy Gyngell, I’m a well-known novelist and co-founder of Writers Rebel and I’m writing to you because Steve Baker announced last week that he’d been given a role in Liz Truss’s new government as junior minister in the Northern Ireland office. A day later, he stepped down from his role as [...]

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Sir Jonathon Porritt’s Letter to Jerome Booth of the GWPF

Jonathon Porritt — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 07:00:49 +0000

Sunday 2nd October Dear Jerome Booth, Forgive me contacting you out of the blue – but I was just reading about your association with the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) in today’s Observer! That came as something of a surprise, I have to say, given the acumen you have brought to bear on [...]

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An Intersectional FutureLeah Thomas

Leah Thomas — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 07:00:08 +0000

This week, intersectional environmentalist and writer Leah Thomas shares an excerpt from her forthcoming book, The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet, published by Profile Books. I had a rude awakening during the summer of 2014. While on break from college in my hometown of Florissant, Missouri, [...]

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In Case of Medical Climate Emergency, Break GlassAnouchka Grose

Anouchka Grose — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 10:35:45 +0000

COLLECTIVE ACTION OR COLLECTIVE SUICIDE One of the many alarming aspects of this latest heatwave is that you can link it to the climate emergency without anyone trying to make you feel crazy. For the long-time eco-anxious amongst us, this is more than a little disconcerting. Having been treated like lunatics for decades, suddenly [...]

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