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Nov 25, 2024 | 
brunel.ac.uk | Gareth Dale
Writing for an article originally published in Truthout, and reprinted here with permission, Dr Gareth Dale (reader in political economy at Brunel University London) reflects on the end of the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, known as COP29, and wonders whether a mass change in political consciousness could still stave off the worst of the looming catastrophe. © Truthout.org
COP29 fizzled out as catastrophe looms.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Gareth Dale
Another year of climate breakdown approaches its end, marked by reports that 2024 will be the first year in which the world’s average surface temperature exceeded the pre-industrial average by 1.5 degrees Celsius (1.5°C) — and by another COP climate conference. Would the 29th in the series, held in Azerbaijan, be more of the same, a fossil fuel-friendly cop-out? It began with poetry. The COP29 president, Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources H. E.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
truthout.org | Gareth Dale
In 2023, when Europe was blasted by a record-breaking heatwave named after Cerberus (the three-headed hound of Hades), workers organized to demand protection from the extreme heat. In Athens, employees at the Acropolis and other historical sites went on strike for four hours each day. In Rome, refuse collectors threatened to strike if they were forced to work during periods of peak heat.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
rebelion.org | Gareth Dale
Fuentes: El Salto Aquellas personas que se encuentran en una situación precaria y de inestabilidad económica son las que pueden inspirar la descarbonización de la industria y la creación de empleos que sean respetuosos con el medioambiente. Contamos con una historia sólida de iniciativas obreras que han superado despidos, así como una serie de colaboraciones recientes entre activistas, sindicatos y trabajadores, que sirven de ejemplos concretos de transición empoderada.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
prensarural.org | Gareth Dale
Justicia climáticaLucha de clases ecológica: la clase trabajadora y la transición justaLas luchas de clases que se libren a lo largo de este siglo decidirán la habitabilidad de la Tierra durante los próximos milenios. Podemos inspirarnos en las reivindicaciones que unen a los activistas por el clima y a los sindicatos. También podemos inspirarnos en las huelgas escolares contra el cambio climático, que han introducido el concepto de la huelga entre las nuevas generaciones.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Gareth Dale
First published at Green European Journal. In 2023, when Europe was blasted by a record-breaking heatwave named after Cerberus (the three-headed hound of Hades), workers organised to demand protection from the extreme heat. In Athens, employees at the Acropolis and other historical sites went on strike for four hours each day. In Rome, refuse collectors threatened to strike if they were forced to work during periods of peak heat.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Gareth Dale |Phil Christman
A Pastoral PerspectiveAs a woman who has no more desire to be a priest than I do to be a brain surgeon, let me raise the pastoral perspective (“Women and the Priesthood,” May). How many teenage boys would be comfortable confessing to a woman, even if it were Mother Teresa? Yet confessing to a man is what teenage girls are faced with.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Carrie Frederick Frost |Gareth Dale |Phil Christman
“Who do you think will go first: the Catholics or the Orthodox?” a colleague asked me a few years ago in reference to the movements in both traditions to ordain women to the diaconate. Given that the possibilities in my own Orthodox community were just as opaque to me as my knowledge of the Catholic situation, I could not say. But bound up with that question was another question: Would the ordination of deaconesses in one apostolic lung of the Church make it easier for the other?
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Richard Schiffman |Gareth Dale |Alice McDermott |Phil Christman
We call it a mourning dove, a misnomer,as if its placid call were plaintive,as if it shared our plumbless ache of loss. But hereabouts it’s simply morning’s doveriffing daily with the sun’s first raysa refrain that’s never differentyet never fully the same—a thousand and one versionsof hello, hello, hello and hello. It throws its heart into every utterance,so it never rushes to sayanything more than it actually knows. Greeting no one in particular—just joy pretending that it is sorrow.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Jo McGowan |Gareth Dale |Alice McDermott |Phil Christman
India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been in power since 2014, increasing its hold on the country with each election. About six months ago, my husband, Ravi, and a few others began telling people here that its projected win in this year’s elections was far from certain. Few believed them. While everyone wanted it to be true, all the signs said otherwise: not only would the BJP win, but the win this time would be historic. Our children in the United States and the United Kingdom concurred.
