Tag Archives: Shell

Stumbling ever deeper into the Pyrocene

Posted on August 5, 2026 by John Gibbons

I ran the below analysis piece in the Irish Examiner at the start of August, to coincide with Europe’s fourth heatwave of the crazy summer of 2026. Europe is heating at more than twice the global average, for a number … Continue reading →

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Oil giants struggle to wash blood off their hands

Posted on February 24, 2023 by John Gibbons

It may be making more money than ever, but the fossil fuel industry is rapidly losing whatever semblance of social licence it could still cling to. And despite the high salaries on offer, more and more young people are turning … Continue reading →

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Oh! What a Lovely War for fossil fuel profiteers

Posted on February 7, 2023 by John Gibbons

While 2022 may have been the year when full-scale war returned to Europe for the first time since 1945, with massive spikes in energy prices impacting tens of millions of households, it was also a great year for fossil fuel … Continue reading →

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Turning climate protest into an art form

Posted on October 22, 2022 by John Gibbons

An ingenious protest involving soup and a famous painting threw the global spotlight on the climate emergency in a way that a thousand scientific articles, petitions and marches seemed to have failed to do. I was asked by TheJournal.ie for … Continue reading →

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