New production at Contact Theatre – looks fab. You book here.
Devised by the company in collaboration with poet, writer and director Zena Edwards, Climate of Fear looks at the emotion of anger through themes of climate justice, social inequality, memory and the body.
One by one, the company deliver a series of original monologues exploring their own questions about food, inequality, commodification and the environment.
The show opens Flying Solo, their annual festival celebrating what happens when performers go it alone, which runs from Thursday 5 – Saturday 14 May.
Disclosure: MCFly offered to publicise this show, and then was offered two comp tickets, and accepted them. Going on the website of the director Zena Edwards, it looks like it’s going to be a damn fine evening.
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Ten Labour Party candidates for Manchester City Council seats have now responded to Friends of the Earth’s survey about their environmental beliefs and policy commitments. They are second only to the Greens, with 14 responses, and ahead of the Liberal Democrats on 6. 
ABSTRACT At the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Paris, France, 30 November to 11 December 2015, an Agreement was reached by the international community including 195 countries. The Agreement has been hailed, by participants and the media, as a major turning point for policy in the struggle to address human-induced climate change. The following is a short critical commentary in which I briefly explain why the Paris Agreement changes nothing. I highlight how the Agreement has been reached by removing almost all substantive issues concerning the causes of human-induced climate change and offers no firm plans of action. Instead of substantive cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as soon as possible, the intentions of the parties promise escalation of damages and treat worst-case scenarios as an acceptable 50:50 chance. The Paris Agreement signifies commitment to sustained industrial growth, risk management over disaster prevention, and future inventions and technology as saviour. The primary commitment of the international community is to maintain the current social and economic system. The result is denial that tackling GHG emissions is incompatible with sustained economic growth. The reality is that Nation States and international corporations are engaged in an unremitting and ongoing expansion of fossil fuel energy exploration, extraction and combustion, and the construction of related infrastructure for production and consumption. The targets and promises of the Paris Agreement bear no relationship to biophysical or social and economic reality.
For Manchester, where 32 council seats are up for grabs, the current response rates are as follows
The TL;DR. You can look at the political and social forces that led to the UK Climate Act 2008 in various valid ways. Implementation of policy is another matter, however
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