External articles by Nafeez M Ahmed

When it Comes to Fighting Climate Change, the Future is African

While Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to climate change, it could also hold the solution to the crisis

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The Far-Right Eugenics Mindset Behind Musk’s Twitter Takeover

Dangerous fringe ideas from the 20th Century are being resurrected by today's tech billionaires

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The Great Contraction: How the End of Cheap Money and Energy Will Degrade or Renew Civilisation

Nafeez Ahmed predicted the 2008 financial crash. But it was not resolved and has led to a more profound crisis which will require a major restructuring of the global economy to survive

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Sponsor Microsoft Partnering with Egypt's Big Oil Drive to ‘Increase’ Fossil Fuel Investments

Documents reveal Microsoft is working with the Egyptian Government to use COP27 to maximise fossil fuel exploitation – and the owners of the Daily Mail are helping them

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The Hidden Climate Bomb: Carbon Footprint of World’s Armies Higher than Russia

A new analysis of undocumented military carbon emissions estimates that they are equivalent to 85% of all carbon emitted by the world’s passenger cars

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Climate Scientists Blind to ‘Existential Threat’ to Humanity New Research Warns

A new report suggests that, far from being alarmist, the real social and economic dangers of the climate emergency are outside of boundaries of traditional climate science

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Cabinet Minister Against Islamophobia Definition Addresses ‘Dark Money’ Lobbying Group Tied to Extremist Organisations

As the Government drops its commitment to introduce an official definition of anti-Muslim hate, Nafeez Ahmed reveals the network of influence surrounding two key officials

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Trump & Putin’s War On the ‘Green Agenda’

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how the Russian energy giant Gazprom planned to control Ukraine’s gas and backed Donald Trump due to Putin’s existential fear of net zero

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Britain’s Stark Choice Ahead: Transformation or Collapse

The country is following a familiar pattern of environmental, energy and economic-driven state failure – if the next government refuses to break with neoliberal orthodoxy, it will only accelerate this downwards trajectory

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Britain is Sleepwalking into Societal Collapse

The sacking of the Chancellor is a symptom of the escalating incoherence of Liz Truss’ Government – not a sign that it is changing course to become more coherent

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The Dark Heart of Trussonomics: The Mainstreaming of Libertarian Theories of Social Darwinism and Apartheid

The legacy of the Nazi ideology of eugenics – popularised by Charles Murray’s controversial book The Bell Curve – goes some way to explaining Trussonomics

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Conservative MP Blaming ‘Islamist Extremists’ for Leicester Violence Funded by Organisations Tied to Hindutva Militants

Bob Blackman, who is the executive secretary of the influential 1922 Committee, has had a number of visits to India hosted by pro-RSS groups

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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Funding Ties With Dirty Canadian Pipeline Giants and Palm Oil Deforestation

Rees-Mogg’s appointment as Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Secretary suggests the Government is not committed to its own net zero aims

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Fracking minister Funded by Fossil Fuel Investor

Nafeez Ahmed investigates Jacob Rees-Mogg’s relationship with his former hedge-fund mentor and political donor Robin Crispin Odey

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American Dark Money, the Mercers and the Conservative Party: A Network of Influence

A special investigation exposes the transatlantic connections between an extremist US pro-Trump lobby and organisations influencing Liz Truss’ Conservative Cabinet

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How is Energy Transformation Key to Defeating Vladimir Putin?

A mass roll-out of home insulation, heating efficiency and heat-pumps could rapidly eliminate gas dependence in Europe – and neuter Putin’s most potent energy weapon

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Truss’ North Sea Drilling Plan Will Need to Prolong Cost of Living Crisis to Buoy Big Oil Profits

The Government’s own data suggests that Britain’s fossil fuel lobbies want to use the cost of living crisis to keep themselves afloat

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Solar and Wind Power Now Deliver ‘More than Double’ the Energy Produced by Oil, New Study Finds

New research confirms that renewables have been generating far more net energy than fossil fuels for years

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Ending the Age of Scarcity

The energy, transport, food, information, and materials sectors are all undergoing rapid technological disruption. But with the right choices, we can rapidly build a more just and advanced civilization that provides unprecedented levels of universal and sustainable prosperity.

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The clean energy transformation: a new paradigm for social progress within planetary boundaries

This paper explores new possibilities that could empower humanity to solve some of its most intractable problems: energy scarcity and volatility, the persistence of food insecurity and malnutrition, global poverty, and widening inequality.

The Club of Rome

Rishi Sunak’s Family Profiting from Ties to Oil Giant Shell

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how every one of the four hopefuls battling to replace Boris Johnson as Conservative leader is tied to fossil fuels and climate science denial

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The End of the ‘Technological Era’ of Oil, Gas & Coal

Fossil fuels face extinction, but we will still need to grapple with the financial chaos of stranded assets, an unravelling geopolitical order, and dangerous climate change

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Collapse of British Conservativism Will Create a Vacuum that Must Be Filled

With the Conservatives likely to continue their tactics of division and distraction, opposition parties must step up with a new vision

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The World Needs ‘Rapid Climate Cooling’ as 2℃ Overshoot Now Likely, New Research Warns

Scientists are warning that the climate situation is so dire that we will not only need to withdraw carbon from the atmosphere but begin exploring controversial solar geoengineering technologies to cool the planet

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