Felicity Wade is the National Co-convenor of the Labor Environment Action Network (LEAN) and has worked for NSW Leader of the Opposition Luke Foley and The Wilderness Society.
Here, Felicity talks about her journey through the Department of Political Economy within the School of [...]
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Welfare is commonly understood in socio-economic terms of equity, highlighting distributive issues within growing capitalist economies. In times when the unequal distribution of wealth in the ‘advanced’ capitalist world has returned to levels of the 19th century, the question of whether we [...]
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Global businesses, many of them now larger and more powerful than nation states, exhibit enormous sway on humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Indeed, during the Paris climate talks in December last year, growing media focus centred on business “leadership” on climate change. For [...]
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The creation of one’s interests in others negates the need for persuasion or coercion. That is the central premise of my article ‘Interests need not be pursued if they can be created: Private governance in African gold mining’, published in Business and Politics and awarded the [...]
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Did world leaders at the 21st Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agree to the recommended carbon emissions target of 1.5 degrees Celsius? No: citizens and activists observing the December 2015 Paris meeting simply encountered business as usual – a [...]
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Ending and extending fossil-fuelled capitalism
The new, aspirational goal of limiting temperature increases to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels requires a rapid end to the burning of fossil fuels. This was, of course, also true of the old goal of 2°C. Research published in Nature earlier [...]
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In his speech at the opening of the Paris climate conference this week, US President Barack Obama declared his hope that the gathering of world leaders will be considered a “turning point…a moment we finally determined that we would save our planet.”
There is no doubt Paris represents [...]
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As fossil fuels deplete, what happens to capitalist political economies they support?
Carbon Capitalism: Energy, Social Reproduction and World Order, examines a new theory for understanding energy, social reproduction and capitalism.
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