How we stop big oil

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

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.

From the steam engine to the Paris Agreement.

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

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.

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.

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.

How can we phase out fossil fuels in a way that works for people everywhere? The historic Cochabamba People’s Agreement offers a way forward, argues Max Ajl.

The rich and powerful are using ruinous lawsuits to target journalists and activists who hold them to account. Tina Burrett explores the threat.

Cash-strapped but strategically important, Tajikistan is undergoing rapid change with its future increasingly being shaped by a power play between China and Russia. Klas Lundström reports.

Branded as terrorists by President Erdoğan’s hardline regime, LGBTQI+ people in Turkey are finding ways to express themselves and build solidarity, writes Tuğçe Özbiçer.

It’s been 40 years since New Internationalist sounded the alarm on child sponsorship. But today thousands of people are still signing up to the idea. To whose benefit?, asks Kathleen Nolan as she explores why this quick fundraising tool is not all it’s cracked up to be.

As climate change stretches human fragility towards breaking point, should we be preparing for societal collapse? This is the existential question behind ‘deep adaptation’, a theory that is rapidly gaining adherents. Richard Swift assesses how far, if anywhere, it will take us and what better paths we could go down.

War and the attention economy. By Nanjala Nyabola.

Bring on the marriage strike. By Nilanjana Bhowmick.

Racism’s deadly cycle. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

Report from Ukraine by Bennett Murray.

The new ‘anti-politics’ president of South Korea.

Report from Mexico by Mattha Busby.

Report from Nepal by Graeme Green.

Report from Sweden by Fran Mills.

Report from Tanzania by Maina Waruru.

Toxic ties severed; Plastic promises; Green wave win.

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Being forced to go without electricity sparks thoughts about living differently for Virginia Tognola.

Soup and cookies, by Jun Pang and Nadia Hasan.

Lunar real estate?

Percentage of household income spent on food.

"P&O don't rat on workers".

Oil prices & war by Miguel Morales Madrigal (Cuba).

The photos, facts, and politics of Belarus.

A people's history by Darryl Cunningham.

Can we banish polluters from our billboards? Words by Danny Chivers.

Reflection by P J Polyp.

Illustration by Kate Evans.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Democratic Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin.

Supply chain issues by Marc Roberts.

Crossword Puzzle, Association Words and Wordsearch.

Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: ethical tax-dodging.

We said ‘no’ to concrete? The world is turning grey as more and more concrete is poured. Vanessa Baird posits an alternative.

Things They Lost; This World Does Not Belong to Us; Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends; Aftermath.

The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson; The Wall of Shadows.

Strike; РАЗОМ ЗА УКРАЇНУ/Together for Ukraine;

Of Asian Dub Foundation. Words by Subi Shah.