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Strategically and morally there are only two acceptable positions on nuclear weapons: a commitment to deep arms control and disarmament, or work for the prohibition of nuclear weapons as a prerequisite for their abolition. Trump will oppose both, and in doing so he will increase global support for each.
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The need for a complete reorientation of environmental politics?
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When growth may no longer mean jobs, we might ask: are any of our political parties facing reality?
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Humans now have the capacity to produce synthetic life-forms (since 2010) and to destroy life on this planet as we know it (since 1952). It is only by recognizing this point — that we are now reconstituting the very basis of nature — that adequate acknowledgement of the Anthropocene starts to hit home.
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We can see again an implicit framework that the major parties share, albeit from different sides … for at least many of the younger generations it is surely a danse macabre, of figures of an old world that retain only slight purchase on the key issues and forms of the present.
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Visions of society and democracy in the Abbott/Hockey budget
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Inhaling the consequences of market emancipation in the La Trobe Valley
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Grassroots campaigning for the planet as the election hots up
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By Alison Caddick.
“…In this issue of Arena Magazine contributors put the lie to many of the claims and fantasies propagated by ‘the miners’ and their political boosters…”