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Robo-bins say "Bottles mean prizes!"

The ConDem coalition government has shown its true shade of green with new proposals to reward households who produce more recycling waste. The plans, announced last week by Communities Secretary, Conservative Eric Pickles (whose name just seems to capture his essence), are ostensibly designed to reduce waste going into landfill sites around the country. In [...]

A Rude Interruption

The attempt by Aberdeen SSP to conduct a serious interview on the issue of free public transport was left in disarray last night after a (no doubt drunken) passerby interrupted SSP candidate for Aberdeen North Ewan Robertson’s attempt to explain the policy. Rather than discuss issues of climate change, reversing rip-off privatised transport with a [...]

Messages to the People's Conference on Climate Change

In response to the utter failure of the world’s governments to tackle the climate crisis in Copenhagen, the left wing government in Bolivia has organised a people’s summit. Bolivia, Venezuela and other radical developing countries refused to sign the deal that rich countries like Britain and the US tried to force through the Copenhagen summit, [...]

Iceland volcano does more to save planet than most governments

Now that the flight ban is over, it’s estimated that the grounding of planes over the past few days has prevented around 2.8 million tonnes of carbon emissions by the aviation industry. To put this in perspective, this is more than the annual emissions of around 50 different developing countries like Rwanda, Malawi or Sierra [...]

The REAL climate conspiracy

News came today that an independent inquiry into the so-called ‘Climategate’ hacked email scandal has cleared the scientists involved of any wrongdoing. Last year an as yet unidentified hacker managed to steal thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit. These were then sent to climate change deniers, who picked through [...]

The Billionaire Brothers behind climate change denial

A major investigation by Greenpeace has revealed what we always knew: climate change denial is a well funded conspiracy, centered on oil corporations. In recent years, there’s been a lot of focus on the role of companies like Exxon in funding organisations that spread lies and propaganda to undermine climate science. But even their contributions [...]

James Lovelock is too stupid to prevent climate change

James Lovelock is a notable scientist and inventor. He’s most famous for developing the Gaia theory, which argues that living organisms and the physical processes of the Earth are part of a huge system that regulates conditions on this planet to keep it comfortable for life. He’s also a total knobhead. Lovelock has been prominent [...]

Duck murdering bastards on trial

Warning: This post contains some upsetting stuff about dead ducks. The above video is one of several shot by William Todd Powell, a senior biologist working for the Province of Alberta in Canada. It shows a duck struggling to escape from a tailings pond, where oil company Syncrude dumped the toxic leftovers of its operation [...]

There's not too many people, there's too many RICH people

I’m sure many Leftfield readers will have been watching the latest series of Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe, pretty much the best satire on telly. I loved the second series of this vital show, taking down the lies and fantasies of the media at every turn. But I didn’t love most of the bits featuring “US comic [...]

Mainshill faces eviction

Since June of last year, environmental activists have been occupying the site of a proposed new open-cast coal mine in Mainshill, Lanarkshire. Despite vehement opposition to the mine from the local community, and the devastating environmental impact of open-cast mining locally, not to mention the impact on climate change globally, South Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Coal and wealthy [...]