This edited radio-show transcript provides personal accounts of women’s experiences in rural Ireland during the transition to electricity.
Earth First! 29, no. 2 features news from the prisoner hunger strike in Greece, and water privatization in Maine, as well as reflections on a primitive lifestyle, on building an anti-capitalist movement for climate justice in Denmark and the US, and on “vengeful animals.”
The failure of the potato crop in Ireland, aided by harsh British land ownership policies, caused a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration.
This article examines in detail the trends in turf production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, noting its striking resilience.
The Pipe tells the story of a small Irish community taking on the Shell Oil Company and their plans to build a pipeline through the village.
Over the last two centuries, human beings have come to rely on ever-increasing quantities of energy to fuel their rising numbers and improving standards of living. In this volume of RCC Perspectives, scholars from around the world consider how our relationship to energy has changed, why it has changed, and how it may change in the years to come.
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The authors regard migration as a form of adaptation and argue that Irish migration in 1740–1741 should be considered as a case of climate-induced migration.
