Fridays for future – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 03 May 2022 11:47:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 The Climate Movement is Panicking. It shouldn’t. https://energytransition.org/2022/05/the-climate-movement-is-panicking-it-shouldnt/ https://energytransition.org/2022/05/the-climate-movement-is-panicking-it-shouldnt/#respond Tue, 10 May 2022 10:00:04 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26539 In the face of setbacks, the global climate movement is at loose ends. But rather than doubt itself – and resort to violence – it has to buildout its prodigious achievements with the kind of non-violent activism that has proved so effective. Paul Hockenos has the story. The climate movement practisies diverse forms of civil disobedience. (Photo by Open Minder, CC BY-NC-ND 2.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/05/the-climate-movement-is-panicking-it-shouldnt/feed/ 0 A Layman’s Guide to “Thinking the World Anew” https://energytransition.org/2020/06/a-laymans-guide-to-thinking-the-world-anew/ https://energytransition.org/2020/06/a-laymans-guide-to-thinking-the-world-anew/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:00:12 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22523 The German political economist Maja Göpel’s new book is currently Germany’s No. 1 bestselling work of non-fiction. It reaches back to the beginnings of capitalism to understand how we’ve landed in our present overlapping crises of environmental degradation, economic disparity, and illiberal democracy. In order to confront them, we have to first change the way we think about the big-ticket issues...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/06/a-laymans-guide-to-thinking-the-world-anew/feed/ 1 Fridays for Future Shifts Gears https://energytransition.org/2020/03/21951/ https://energytransition.org/2020/03/21951/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:00:01 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21951 In the Corona crisis, the climate movement struggles to find its voice. Paul Hockenos gives us an update about the challenges the movement is facing under the current circumstances. Friday for Future has suspended all public demonstrations. ( Public Domain) Since mid-March, Invaliden Park in Berlin, for over a year the location of the Friday school strikes, stands bare and eerily silent.

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2020/03/21951/feed/ 0 Irrational thinking: Merkel’s government stunningly green-lights new coal-fired power plant https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/ https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/#respond Thu, 26 Dec 2019 14:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21471 Despite all their rhetoric, Angela Merkel’s Grand Coalition government is clearly not all that interested in really powering past coal. The latest evidence is its decision to allow the Uniper-owned 1,200 MW hard coal-fired power plant, Datteln 4, to come online in 2020 — against the recommendations of the Coal Commission. As the government embarks on a bizarre sales campaign peddling the idea that...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/12/irrational-thinking-merkels-government-stunningly-green-lights-new-coal-fired-power-plant/feed/ 0 Rebelling against extinction: new British movement fuels global action https://energytransition.org/2019/11/rebelling-against-extinction-new-british-movement-fuels-global-action/ https://energytransition.org/2019/11/rebelling-against-extinction-new-british-movement-fuels-global-action/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:00:29 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=21165 Accepting the truth about the climate and ecological emergency—and acting upon it—is the core message of Extinction Rebellion. Since April, through non-violent acts of civil disobedience, they have globally staged protests and street blockades. During October’s wave of action, Buchsbaum joined them in Berlin. Extinction Rebellion protests worldwide for climate actions ( Public Domain) When hope...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/11/rebelling-against-extinction-new-british-movement-fuels-global-action/feed/ 0 Poland Discovers Ecology https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/ https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/#respond Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:00:56 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20949 After a long time of being either ignored or seen as a Western luxury topic, the state of the environment has begun to occupy a broad space in Polish public debate. From the threat of air pollution to the climate crisis, sustainability is now more visible than ever in the media and the campaign ahead of parliamentary elections on October 13. But will this shift produce a real change in direction...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2019/10/poland-discovers-ecology/feed/ 0 Greta’s Coming for Us: It’s the climate-change believers she’s out to flip https://energytransition.org/2019/09/gretas-coming-for-us-its-the-climate-change-believers-shes-out-to-flip/ https://energytransition.org/2019/09/gretas-coming-for-us-its-the-climate-change-believers-shes-out-to-flip/#comments Mon, 02 Sep 2019 13:00:04 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=20603 On a high-speed, zero-emissions vessel, Greta Thunberg arrived in the U.S. from Europe on August 29 – a masterpiece of symbolism and PR savvy, the kind which by now we’ve come to expect from the Swedish teenager and her fellow activists in the Fridays for Future movement. In the space of just one short year, their audacious “school strikes” on Fridays have prompted a startling reality check among...

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