CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Latest editorial
‘A futurology of fools’
That's how a supposedly politics-free vision of Scotland's future comes across, says CALUM BARNES
Abandoned open pit just below the summit of Ben Eagach in Perthsire
[Vincent van Zeijst/Creative Commons]
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Scotland 2070
by Ian Godden, Hillary Sillitoe and Dorothy Godden
(College Publications, £13.99)
SCOTLAND 2070 boldly proclaims on its cover that it is “an ambitious vision for Scotland’s future without the politics.”
Written by consultants to oil and engineering firms, the non-political caveat reveals itself to be a fatuous one as its authors bring a very particular class perspective to their vision. To them, climate apocalypse is not so much a crisis but an opportunity for capital accumulation.
This is not to suggest that none of the book’s proposals are of no value. Godden et al are correct to argue that Scotland’s landscape is severely underutilised. To reforest much of the land, with requisite ecological sensitivity, would not only create jobs but provide natural carbon capture to combat fossil fuel emissions.
Similar stories
Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR
IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future
From summit to summit, imperialist companies and governments cut, delay or water down their commitments, warn the Communist Parties of Britain, France, Portugal and Spain and the Workers Party of Belgium in a joint statement on Cop30
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20