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Fighting the fossils

Big Oil is throwing money at new fossil fuel infrastructure like there’s no tomorrow. New pipelines, refineries, wells and rigs are being built across all continents. But everywhere the industry goes, it meets resistance. Here are four profiles of groups saying enough is enough. Words by Nick Dowson.

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NI 537 - How we stop big oil - May, 2022
Indigenous spokesperson Lorena Bravo, wrapped in a Mapuche flag, looks towards a gas plant at Campo Maripe, a land claimed by her community, in Anelo, Neuquen province.Photo: Emiliano Lasalvia/AFP via Getty Images

The fracked earth

The Mapuche people in Argentina are saying no to an influx of transnationals trying to frack their lands. Meanwhile the government offers sweetheart deals. Grace Livingstone reports.

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The new greenwashing

Faced with planetary catastrophe, Big Oil has applied boundless creativity, not to solving the climate crisis but to deflecting action. Nick Dowson dissects the corporate spin.

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The Dooh family on their lake in the Niger Delta which was devastated by an oil spill. The farming family won a case against Shell in the Netherlands, which took 13 years.Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Panos

Cut and run

Pollute, don’t pay. Big Oil has perfected its playbook in the Niger Delta and is now looking to walk away. Ken Henshaw reports.

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Fossil fuels – a journey in time

From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.

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Top 5 oil producing and consuming countries (2020)

Big oil - the facts

New money is being poured into oil and gas despite the harm it causes to people and planet. With more than 1°C of global warming already, the time remaining to change course is short.

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Action & info

Action & info

Initiatives, action, and further reading on how to stop big oil.

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Wind and solar generation at Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan province, Vietnam.Photo: Quang Ngoc Nguyen/Alamy

Beyond big oil

We cannot let the ever-expanding oil and gas industry stand in the way of urgently needed climate action. Nick Dowson lays out a path to change.

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In South Africa, activists are challenging Shell’s drilling plans along the country’s eastern coastline.Photo: Mike Hutchings/Reuters/Alamy Stock Photo

Temperature check

The ultimate 2022 climate to-do list by Danny Chivers.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
More of the same. Insufficient action on climate means more cyclones like Mora, which hit Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in 2017.Photo: Suman Paul Himu/Drik

Loss and damage

Rich countries’ refuse to compensate vulnerable countries.

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NI 535 - Romani lives matter - January, 2022
Internationalize it! A girl takes part in a global day of action on climate change in Khayelitsha township near Cape Town, South Africa in September 2020.Photo: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters

Temperature check

Danny Chivers suggests five useful things you can do during COP26.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Photo: Sarah Yoon

The Interview: Susan Nakyung Lee

A newly formed citizen’s grouping – Global Assembly – wants a snapshot of humanity to air its views directly to policymakers at this year’s UN climate conference. Amy Hall speaks to one of its organizers, Susan Nakyung Lee, about the limits and potential of democracy.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
The Basòdino glacier lies in the borderlands between Switzerland and Italy, but it has retreated by 80 per cent since 1850. On 12 September, activists climbed the mountain to stage a ‘funeral’.Photo: Daniel Pittet

Farewell to a glacier

Nicholas Hutchinson mourns the death of the Basòdino glacier in Switzerland.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
A cop out? Activists don’t expect climate justice to emerge from negotiations at the UN summit under the leadership of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (whose head featured in a Greenpeace protest against plastic, outside Downing Street, London earlier this year).Photo: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

Will COP26 deliver?

Activists don’t expect climate justice to emerge from negotiations at the UN summit, reports Eve Livingston.

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Illustration: Tomekah George

Lloyd’s of London’s debt

When it comes to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and ongoing support of fossil fuels, what would be the cost of financial reparations? Through exploring the history of a prominent player in the insurance marketplace, Sahar Shah and Harpreet Kaur Paul have an idea of where to start.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
No fear of heights: two engineers check out the drill shaft on an oil platform in the North Sea.Photo: Horizon International Images Limited/Alamy

Green jobs - puffery and promise

Campaigners have long argued that a transition to renewable energy could provide a jobs bonanza. Now politicians are talking that talk – but many workers in the fossil-fuel industry believe it’s a con. Conrad Landin picks through the rhetoric with offshore workers in Scotland.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Perfect for peanuts. Oumar Ba is working to restore the sandy soils of the Sahel in Ndiob district, Senegal.Photo: Hazel Healy/New Internationalist

‘This land is beautiful to us’

The soil is dying, the water’s running out, and climate change is rendering the future even more uncertain. Hazel Healy speaks to farmers in Senegal who are ready for a different system.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Illustration: Emma Peer

Agony Uncle: A climate activist's conviction vs their future

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. Seems like we’re all in need of a New Internationalist perspective. Enter stage: Agony Uncle.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Only Planet

Only Planet

Final frontier, by Marc Roberts.

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Tree-planting overkill? There literally isn’t enough room on the planet to host all the corporate carbon-offsetting plans.Photo: Nikola Jovanovic/Unsplash

Temperature check

Is there such a thing as a ‘good’ carbon offset? Words by Danny Chivers.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021

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How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
How we stop big oil May, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
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