• Kaleidoscope: About The Issue

    Ecological, economic, political, cultural, and spiritual facets form the climate kaleidoscope. UnEarth Magazine looks through this refracted prism and teases out the interconnections of the climate crisis. The climate crisis is a paradigm-altering event. It challenges, stretches, and smashes the dynamic norms upon which we have built our civilization. For the climate crisis is not…

  • Breaking Out Of the Echo Chamber

    Does ignorance to climate change make your blood boil? Do you feel discouraged from talking to your family about making changes? Can we afford to be thinking and feeling this way?  Let’s discuss effective communication on environmental issues.   The temptation of surrounding ourselves with people who share the same opinions, passions and lifestyles as our own, is a dangerous trap. I often wonder, whilst…

  • Women: Sufferers, Soldiers, Solutions

    What really makes climate change a crisis is how much devastation it will be bring to those oppressed across the world. Women will not only bear the brunt of the ecological effects, but also the compounding social inequality that will pursue. Confronting the sexism rife in our society is necessary if we want any chance…

  • The Absurd Apocalypse

    Reflections on a strange world. The literal apocalypse that is the climate crisis appears to have been relegated far down everyone’s list of priorities in light of the pandemic. Whilst we’re all holed up indoors, the crushing weight of ecological collapse has been understandably replaced with far more tangible threats. Like many others I’m sure,…

  • Vulture Culture: Capitalism’s Role in The Climate Crisis

    The climate crisis is often portrayed as a paradigm-shifting phenomenon, and yet the solutions we have been convinced to champion so far have largely adhered to the dominant unsustainable and capitalist culture that created the crisis in the first place. The climate crisis is arguably the most urgent problem of our times, and yet little…

  • Is The UK Government Overly Reliant on Scientific and Technological Solutions to the Climate Crisis?

    The UK government has established a 10-point-plan for a ‘green recovery’ following the Covid-19 pandemic. Many targets in this plan involve the development and mass-delivery of ‘low-carbon’ energy solutions to help combat the climate crisis. How reliable are such solutions, and is the government relying too heavily on the industrial tech sector to reach net-zero…

  • Solidarity and Mutual Aid in Times of Emergency

    It is easy to call for ‘solidarity’, it is difficult to materialise it. One way of putting solidarity into practice is mutual aid, an originally anarchist practice of empowering people around us – and around the world.   In a recent conversation with the journalist Ash Sarkar, the comedian Frankie Boyle remarked that expressing ‘solidarity’ is sometimes indistinguishable from ‘thoughts and prayers.’ However well-meaning, both phrases can amount to nothing more than empty slogans masking inaction by performative compassion. Which is not to say that compassion is unimportant, or…

  • Why Man Destroys: Creativity Gone Awry

    Creativity is one of the principal qualities that make humans so unique, yet that same creativity has ushered the destruction of the planet. Through a discussion of creativity, legendary designer Saul Bass’ Oscar-winning short documentary Why Man Creates inadvertently tells the tale of how man has destroyed Earth.   It is perhaps the most influential…

  • Why All Forests Are Not Created Equal

    not all tree-planting is good for the climate: Instead of re-evaluating our environmentally destructive habits, carbon offsetting simply encourages us to consume our way out of the climate crisis guilt free. Last month, when Elon Musk tweeted his intention to donate $100 million to the best carbon-capture technology, many responses captured my own thoughts exactly.…

  • Circular Economy: Loads of Rubbish?

    Landfills are more carefully managed now than in decades past, but what is the status of those filled and abandoned before legislation came into place? What does the UK’s waste creation and management say about our culture? How do landfills exemplify both our need and ability to create a more circular economy?  Climate change has…

  • Corporate Climate Cooperation and Contradiction: The Challenge of Detecting Greenwashing

    The importance of consumer vigilance in a greenwashed world, and how to tackle it. With our capitalist economy and its profit-maximising corporations at the core of the acceleration of our climate crisis, corporations’ cooperation is imperative in mitigating this emergency. As consumers, we can contribute to fighting the climate crisis through the power we can…

  • Carbon Management and Sustainable Curriculum Design – The Key to Interdisciplinary Sustainability in St Andrews?

    An introduction to CEED’s new “Carbon Management and Sustainable Curriculum Design” course and how it can help St Andrews build an interdisciplinary solution to our climate crisis. Earlier this month, CEED announced a new four-part course called Carbon Management and Sustainable Curriculum. It is designed to help attendees understand the climate crisis, and to help…

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