People & Nature

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Views of climate & ecological crisis, social & labour movement resistance, socialism, Ukraine war, & more, by Simon Pirani & friends.
Websitehttps://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/
Igor Paskar has been sent to a punishment cell & declared a "malicious offender". https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/russia-prison-authorities-punish-anti-war-protester-igor-paskar/ He is serving 8.5 years, after painting his face the colours of Ukraine's flag & firebombing the stone porch of a security services building, doing no damage or injury.
London’s road transport pumps around 7 million tonnes of CO2 into the air each year. https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/londons-car-centred-transport-policies-turbocharge-climate-danger/
Labour transport policy, focused on sinking billions into building roads & airports, makes things worse. Government & city hall have set a bonfire of climate targets
European socialism, imperial militarism and defence of Ukraine https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/european-socialism-imperial-militarism-and-defence-of-ukraine/ "We support building schools & oppose building airport runways. Why can’t we support provision of air defence systems to Ukraine & oppose sinking billions into Trident & aircraft carriers? & call on govt to refuse to buy Israeli-made weapons systems?"
Photo by Steve Eason
Russia's war: stop trying to delegitimise resistance https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/russias-war-stop-trying-to-delegitimise-resistance/ "Were Argentine socialists right to support Malvinas war, & call for it to be “made popular”, in the face of dictatorship? Why should we not demand the racist, anti-working-class, genocide-supporting Starmer govt steps up arms shipments to Ukraine?"
Photo: Ukrainian soldiers in battle of Donetsk airport, October 2014
Carbon capture project greenwashes waste incinerator expansion. https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/carbon-capture-project-greenwashes-waste-incinerator-expansion/ "Cory claims it will generate electricity to power 371,000 homes,but is more likely to put less than half of that into the grid [...] incinerator expansion will encourage local authorities to send waste for burning that could be avoided or recycled". Photo: Crossness Nature Reserve, incinerator in the background
The Turkish miners’ strike of 1990-1991 "was far, far more than just a strike. It brought into action the whole community, in common with all movements that really challenge the established order of things." Pamphlet republished as free-to-download PDF. Photo: Zonguldak, 1991
The Russian government's aim is "to force us to become sheep, marching to the beat of drums made from our own skins". It's an honour for me now to stand side by side with those who refused - Aleksandr Nesterenko in court
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/your-power-is-based-on-lies-and-violence-three-years-for-sharing-ukrainian-songs/
How electricity networks are decentralising, how renewables can be integrated, and why it matters to socialists. A response to Matthew Huber.
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/caution-high-voltage-networks-polemical-cheap-shots-may-cause-damage/
"Nigerian artists, both before and after independence from the British empire in 1960, fused artistic traditions of the Fulani-Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and other Nigerian peoples with European art forms that the colonial power brought. The results are dazzling"
https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/beauty-and-power-in-nigerian-modernism/ Photo: an untitled art work (1969), using oil paint and beads, by Jimoh Buraimoh.
“Try me for treason. I betrayed your deranged state”, the anti-war protester Andrei Trofimov said in court. https://peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/try-me-for-treason/
He is now behind bars for 13 years. Russia's political prisoners need our support