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4 posts published by peoplenature123 during October 2025| People and Nature
4 posts published by peoplenature123 during October 2025| People and Nature
By Simon Pirani. Republished from Jacobin, with thanks On May 16, 2022, the Ukrainian artist Bohdan Ziza poured blue and yellow paint – the colours of his country’s flag – on to a municipal administration building in his home town, Yevpatoria, in Crimea. Ziza posted a video of the action online, with a call to […]| People and Nature
Dave Temple, who died on 13 September aged 81, was a lifelong militant in the labour movement. He worked as an electrician at Murton colliery, county Durham, and played a leading part in the mineworkers’ union for several decades. We worked closely together for much of that time, and Dave’s family asked me to write […]| People and Nature
Review by Simon Pirani of More, More and More: an all-consuming history of energy, by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Allen Lane, 2024) We really are in climate trouble now. The intergovernmental climate agreements, for whatever they were worth, are in peril. The target of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees is effectively lost. A more chaotic global […]| People and Nature
Voices Against Putin’s War: protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts is published this month by Resistance Books. Here is the Introduction to the book, by Simon Pirani, first published on lin…| People and Nature
A guest post by BOB MYERS An amazing meeting of mineworkers and environmentalists from across the former Yugoslavia was held on 12-14 September in the small mining town of Breza. We came together o…| People and Nature
2 posts published by peoplenature123 during June 2025| People and Nature
By Les Levidow. Reposted with thanks from the Ecologist A basic contradiction runs through UK climate policy. The government accepts that oil and gas extraction will increase, and that domestic uses will increase. It even promotes more airports and roads, thus intensifying climate vandalism. And yet ministers claim that their policy favours clean energy for […]| People and Nature
By Simon Pirani. Reposted with thanks from the We Own It! web site More rail and bus fare increases are on the way – and they threaten to undo much of the good promised by wider public ownership an…| People and Nature
Free public transport can open cities to all. It combats social injustice and can also help to tackle climate change, by moving away from car-centred urban transport systems. Public transport has b…| People and Nature
5 posts published by peoplenature123 during August 2025| People and Nature
□ TOM ACKERS puts the case for a universal programme to retrofit the UK’s housing stock with insulation, in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he argues that a strategy to decarbonise home heating must rely first of all on electrification and heat pumps □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking […]| People and Nature
□ Electrification and the installation of heat pumps should be the principle technology for decarbonising homes in the UK, TOM ACKERS argues in this edited excerpt from his new pamphlet. In a linked article here, he assesses the great potential for reducing energy throughput by retrofitting buildings with insulation. □ The whole pamphlet, Remaking Home […]| People and Nature
Review by Simon Pirani of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change, by Friederike Otto (Greystone Books, 2025). Republished, with thanks, from the Ecologis…| People and Nature
1 post published by peoplenature123 during July 2025| People and Nature
“I am using this trial as a tribune from which to denounce the war publicly”, Dmitry Ivanov told a Moscow court, just before it sentenced him to eight-and-a-half years’ imprisonment for circulating…| People and Nature
The Russian anti-war protester Alexei Rozhkov was last month sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment on charges of committing a “terrorist act”, “justifying terrorism”, and circulating false informatio…| People and Nature
Posts about Social and labour movements written by peoplenature123 and Gabriel Levy| People and Nature
Download this, and a linked article, as a PDF here By Simon Pirani Households and businesses across Pakistan are covering their roofs with cheap Chinese solar panels. Generating their own electrici…| People and Nature
This Q&A goes with a linked article: Pakistan’s rush for rooftop solar brings dreams and nightmares Download both articles as a PDF here How big is the shift to solar panels? It is hard t…| People and Nature
□ An interview with Daria Saburova and Denys Gorbach, by Clement Petitjean, first published in French on the socialist web site Mouvements. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, …| People and Nature
Solidarity Zone, which supports people arrested in Russia for anti-war actions, tells the story of political prisoner Igor Paskar. Reposted from Solidarity Zone’s web site. Igor Paskar has been sen…| People and Nature
By Katya Aleksander, who interviewed activists supporting more than 100 Crimean Tatar political prisoners. First published in Russian by Important Stories (Vazhnye Istorii) on 18 May, the 80th anni…| People and Nature
By Simon Pirani. Reproduced, with thanks, from Capitalism Nature Socialism journal, August 2024. Introduction Matthew Huber and Fred Stafford’s insistence that “electricity is poised to be a centra…| People and Nature
