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donate Chernobyl 25 years on
newsitem Eurozine marks the 25 anniversary of Chernobyl with Belarusian author Barys Piatrovich's moving recollections of the aftermath of the disaster; and the late German "Sun King" Hermann Scheer warns of the dangers of the pseudo-consensus on renewables and explains why double-standards are nowhere more apparent than in ongoing investment in nuclear power. Also: articles from the archives on Chernobyl and the energy question. [ more ]
The Chernobyl that nobody wants
Chernobyl Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Barys Piatrovich recalls the tension of unknowing during the days that followed. Today, barely any of the Chernobyl evacuees are still alive. Dispersed throughout Belarus, they died alone and unnoticed, statistically insignificant. [ more ]
Nuclear exit now: The time is ripe
energy The new respectability of renewable energy should not obscure the fact that spending on conventional sources is increasing worldwide, writes Hermann Scheer. Nowhere is the pseudo-consensus on the energy switchover exposed more clearly than in ongoing investment in nuclear power. [ more ]
Remembering Chernobyl
Commemorating the Chernobyl disaster: Remembering the future
chernobyl Have the lessons of Chernobyl been heeded? According to Guillaume Grandazzi, the Chernobyl commemorations will attempt to salvage the fiction of risk-free atomic power. [ more ]
The big lie
The secret Chernobyl documents
chernobyl In 1990, journalist Alla Yaroshinskaya came across secret documents about the Chernobyl catastrophe that revealed a massive cover-up operation and a calculated policy of disinformation. It has taken twenty years for the truth of the Chernobyl disaster to come to light, and even now the full extent of the consequences remains uncertain. [ more ]
"The vodka was supposed to cleanse our thyroid glands"
Igor Kostin on his Chernobyl photos
chernobyl Igor Kostin spent seventeen years photographing the visible and invisible consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Here he talks about his life work. [ more ]
Rites, rituals, and cemeteries
chernobyl Ancient rituals, pagan and Christian, continue in the contaminated regions of Belarus. [ more ]
Children of Chernobyl
chernobyl Now twenty years old, children born on the day of the catastrophe build their future. [ more ]
Energy politics and climate change
Power struggle
nuclear power Faced with the reality that renewables will be unable to replace conventional energy sources in the foreseeable future, arguments for nuclear power - that it is the cleanest and least expensive option - are causing environmentalists to reconsider, writes Angela Saini.
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Manufactured scarcity
energy "Manufacturing scarcity" is the new watchword in "Green capitalism". James Heartfield explains how for the energy sector, it has become a license to print money. Pioneered by Enron in the 1990s, the model of restricted supply is now promoted worldwide. [ more ]
Locked into the politics of unsustainability
climate change Dominant discourses of sustainability remain firmly within the growth paradigm, reflecting the exhaustion of the critique of consumer capitalism. Any genuine turn towards sustainability requires the redefinition of rights and freedoms widely held to be sacrosanct. [ more ]
Ecological materialism
How nature becomes political
climate change The ecological reform of the global economy must bring on board those with no interest in preserving nature per se. The more "nature-oriented" a demand is, the less likely it is to be realized and the more catastrophic the consequences will be. [ more ]
Green turnaround or businesss as usual?
EU climate policy in the new member-states
climate The economies of central eastern Europe have remained unchanged in at least one respect: their high level of energy wastage. Add to that the explosion of car-use in the region, and eastern central Europe becomes the EU's major obstacle to reaching its emissions targets for 2020. [ more ]
Focal point on climate change
Climate of change? Debating the politics of global warming
Read also Social agreement about the necessity of radical ecological change may be unprecedented, yet rhetoric and reality go their separate ways. A Eurozine Focal Point on the politics of global warming. [ more ]
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