Gases
Gases or 'Green House Gases' are essays published by Green House Think Tank which explore a particular, usually topical issue or subject.
From the COVID-19 Crisis to a Sustainable Economy: What progressive politics needs to do now
Loske argues the crisis is a turning point. It divides time into a "before" and an "after". It exposes so many ecologically questionable practices that consequences must and will follow. The disregard for natural boundaries has led us to more vulnerability and more dependence
This is what a real emergency looks like: what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency
John Barry, a member of Green House’s advisory group, considers what the response to Coronavirus can teach us about how we can and need to respond to the planetary emergency.
Extinction, rebellion and Extinction Rebellion
John Foster's extended review of 'This Civilisation is Finished', 'Truth and its consequences' and 'Common Sense for the 21st Century' and concludes rapid action is imperative
‘Official! – climate change is real’. Now: what is to be done?
Climate danger is no longer just one interpretation of the evidence, but what the evidence now decisively demonstrates how things really are. the UK Green Party should actively pursue necessary political changes to climate catastrophe, without waiting for majorities to be convinced by its campaigns
Brexit
Andrew Pearmain's gas and Polemic against Brexit, the state of the nation and the biggest challenges we need to address.
Conflicted about emotions: ecological grief, love and truth
Emotions are important in explaining our motivations and behaviour but have been left out of the discourse on climate change. Mental health impacts of climate change need to be acknowledged. We need a collective mourning of what we are losing so we create space for the new, better ways of living
Progressive Politics: What is it, what is it for, and how do we get it?
Gas by Sara Parkin, Principal Associate of the Sustainability Literacy Project, and former Leader of the Green Party.
Claims for a Decent Life and a True Democracy
John Blewitt explores the intellectual legacy of William Morris and Edward Carpenter, both of whom were active in the socialist movement in the late nineteenth century and are often seen to today as progenitors of the twentieth-century green movement.
A critique of the RSA’s ‘Inclusive Growth Commission'
In the latest Green House Gas, Jonathan Essex and Rupert Read question some of the fundamental assumptions of the RSA Commission's work
Newer Times
Andy Pearmain's Newer Times takes up a generation later the idea of the famous Marxism Today ‘New Times’ thesis. Pearmain suggests that the coming of robotisation is going to fundamentally change the nature of our society and our politics.
“TREEB” stands for The Real Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
What are the real basic causes of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline? This question is asked and answered surprisingly rarely, and when it is, the most frequently proposed answers just scratch the surface of what is at stake.
Paris: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism
Brian Heatley argues that the real meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement is that it is now almost inevitable that there will be 3-4 degrees C of warming by 2100, and that we urgently need to face this and its political implications