Combating Climate Change: Is Adaptation a Viable Solution to Climate Change?
Article by Jahiem McleanPhoto by Marcin Jozwiak on Unsplash The general consensus surrounding climate change seems to be that there needs to be a drastic response in order to combat its most severe effects, however, it is quite widely contested what form this response...
Crisis in Oz: Climate Change and the Green Brick Road to Sustainability
Article by Hilda Hilmi Photo by julio andres rosario ortiz on Unsplash To combat climate change, we must click our heels three times and say ‘There’s no place like home’. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy finds herself challenged in a completely new environment,...
Green Capitalism: Sustainable Adaptation or Vanity Project?
Article by Harvey Hall Photo by Ralph Hutter on Unsplash Multinational corporations run entirely on renewable energy; electric cars and public transport in our cities; and the continuation of the comfortable consumerist lifestyle. Some see this as a promising...
Where Do Men Fit in the Debate of Gender, Equal Rights, and Sustainable Development?
Article by Grace Swainston Photo by john crozier on Unsplash 94% of people think that it is important for women to have the same rights as men [1]and 49% of American men argue that gender equality has not gone far enough[2]. So why is there still such...
What Is the Real Cost of Personalised Online Services?
Article by Elena Buti Photo by Sergey Zolkin on Unsplash People are pawns, but this is not a game. It is time to realise what has been ignored and try to understand what was unknown about data processing. The general public disregards the enormous amount of...
How Do We Create Inequality?
Article by Shivam Maharaj Photo by Benjamin Disinger on Unsplash Since the birth of civilisation 6000 years ago societies have created imagined social orders in order to organise the distribution of power and resources. These social orders inherently create...
Why We Cannot Solve World Poverty Without Achieving Gender Equality
Article by Apolline Harvey Photo by Ricardo Díaz on Unsplash The 2015 Sustainable Development Goals place ending world poverty as goal number 1, however, I believe this is not realistic without resolving goal number 5 (gender equality).[1] Poverty has been an...
‘Green Capitalism’: Is This Really the Answer?
Article by Ruby Fowler Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash With so many businesses acting as driving forces for environmental change, making huge technological advancements to the way society functions, and making ‘going green’ a trendy alternative for consumers....
The Development of Greener Technologies, Is It Worth It?
By Kiera Ford Photo by Zbynek Burival on Unsplash A society with greener technology is a society I hope we all dream of, a world with fewer CO2 emissions and a world where we aren’t in constant fear of reaching the dreaded ‘tipping point’ of exceeding 1.5°C...
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