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Articles from Simon Whalley

Introducing a Global Carbon Allowance Trading System (G-CATS) as an Ecological Alternative to Neoliberalism

In this paper, an alternative economic system to neoliberalism is introduced. Our current system of endless growth has pushed our climate and biospheres to almost complete collapse. It has also caused record levels of inequality, both domestically and internationally and those least responsible for the damage are already suffering. This paper analyses the carbon trading…

ScienceOpen

A father pens a message to his son on the climate crisis: ‘I tried my best’

Coming to terms with the fact that Japan isn't at the same stage as other communities are when it comes to information on the environment, Simon Whalley pivots to education.

The Japan Times

On War and Genocide: An Open Letter to My American and Israeli Brothers and Sisters | Common Dreams

As if the full support for genocide in Gaza wasn’t enough, the U.S. is also helping to perpetuate a war in Ukraine that clearly needs to end in peace talks.

Common Dreams

Is It Time to Drop the D from SDG? | Common Dreams

Our problem isn’t growth. Our problem is inequality.

Common Dreams

A Climate Plea From a Post-Truth World on Fire | Common Dreams

The time has come, our problems are here. Everyone is needed. This means you. This means all of us.

Common Dreams

Why We Need to Abandon Industrial Farming | Common Dreams

Many will argue that chemicals are needed to feed the population, but this is a false dilemma.

Common Dreams

Reaching 1.5°C of Global Heating by 2024 Isn't Even the Whole Story | Common Dreams

Does anyone out there still believe that our current system of growth at all costs is symbiotic with our existence?

Common Dreams

Is FIFA World Cup Controversy Just One More Distraction? | Common Dreams

"If we could take just some of our energy and anger that we rightfully hold for the situation surrounding this World Cup and direct it instead to a system that has been exploiting workers and destroying ecosystems for thousands of years, then we could actually get somewhere."

Common Dreams

Why Are We Fueling Our Own Extinction? | Common Dreams

'While the rest of us understand supply and demand theory, our politicians, slick from all that oil money gushing into their hands, seem unable to firmly grasp this basic theory.'

Common Dreams

Conflict and Climate Change: Is This the New Normal? | Common Dreams

"The Ukraine situation could come to all our borders if we allow corporations to continue fueling our 'democracies' on a diet of fossil fuels and animal flesh."

Common Dreams

Meat-Eating and Subsidizing Our Way Towards Extinction | Common Dreams

"We need to eliminate subsidies to animal agriculture...if we fail to do this, it will be humans that are soon cooking."

Common Dreams

It's Time for a Global Billionaire and Millionaire Wealth Tax to Save Our Living Planet | Common Dreams

The next time you hear someone say it is impossible to solve the climate and biodiversity crises, let them know that the only thing impossible is governments actually acting without massive grassroots pressure.

Common Dreams

The Biggest Threat in 'Don't Look Up' Are the Capitalists on Earth | Common Dreams

"As the crisis gets worse, the calls to tech our way out of the mess will grow ever more fervent. Already, this is the preferred solution of the billionaire class, who see no reason to halt the megamachine that is ultimately causing the extermination event we are witnessing."

Common Dreams

Why Carbon Capture Really and Truly Sucks | Common Dreams

"We are being hoodwinked by the billionaires to believe in tech Carbon Capture and Storage so they can profit when the logical and safer solution is diet change, not climate change."

Common Dreams

This Is How Amazon Is Fueling the Climate Crisis | Common Dreams

Wherever and whenever Amazon can avoid taxes, it does... It's easy to see how Amazon is able to provide its products so cheaply and undercut its brick-and-mortar competitors when it doesn't need to play by the same rules.

Common Dreams

What if Eating Animals Was the Main Cause of the Climate and Biodiversity Crises? | Common Dreams

"The inconvenient truth for our species is that we need to adopt vegan lifestyles as a matter of urgency."

Common Dreams

Climate Emergency: The War We Must Fight | Common Dreams

"If we are to avoid our species' extinction, we must avoid warfare."

Common Dreams

The "Impossible" Rebellion | Common Dreams

There is a non-violent rebellion underway, and everyone and anyone is invited.

Common Dreams

Space Seeking Psychopaths

Our children will inherit dead ecosystems and an unlivable planet. All so the richest can enjoy short ego boosting trips to space.

Medium

Are We Prepared for Pandora's Box of Climate Catastrophes? | Common Dreams

There is still time to avoid the catastrophe we have set in motion, but it is going to take drastic behavior change and huge grassroots pressure on governments to force them to act immediately.

Common Dreams

There Is a Monster in Our Oceans, and It Isn't Sharks, It's Us | Common Dreams

As apex predators, sharks are crucial in the maintenance of oceanic ecosystems.

Common Dreams

This Is Only the Beginning: It's About to Get Much Harder | Common Dreams

Our planet hasn’t seen temperatures this hot in fifteen million years, when the sea level was forty meters higher than it is today.

Common Dreams

The Choice Is Ours: Extinction or Rebellion? | Common Dreams

Due to capitalism’s rapaciousness, our species is hurtling towards ecocide at a frightening pace.

Common Dreams

Of the Rich, By the Rich, For the Rich | Common Dreams

"Our current situation is hardly novel, it is just the continuation of an unjust system built on a document of objective lies. 'All men' should have been replaced by 'some rich white men' and everything would have been a lot clearer."

Common Dreams

How to Fund the Salvation of Humanity | Common Dreams

In our greatest moment of crisis, some of the most imaginative minds on the planet could become our heroes.

Common Dreams

The Plant-Based Diet That Our Planet Urgently Needs | Common Dreams

The gulf between what people say they understand is necessary and what their actions continue to prove otherwise is alarming. It is nowhere more evident than their dietary choices.

Common Dreams

Stop the Violence, Stop the Looting | Common Dreams

A good place to start would be at the very top of American society.

Common Dreams

Soviet Style Rekognition

In an unusual step for a professional athlete, French World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann terminated his sponsorship deal with Chinese…

Medium

Confessions of a former Trump Supporter

There are times in our lives where we all have to hold our hands up and say, “Father I have sinned”. My most recent need to confess dates…

Medium

Can Meaningful Change Be Brought About at The Ballot Box? - Discuss Earth

Britain just voted against its own interest and against the needs of life on Earth. Is it now impossible to bring about meanigful change at the ballot box? Or do we need to take a different approach?

Discuss Earth

This Is a Crossroads Election: Be Careful Which Direction You Choose - Discuss Earth

The upcoming election is without doubt the most important ever contested in British politics. And, make no mistake, it will have global ramifications that will cascade down through generations.

Discuss Earth