Author Archives: Maddy Hilton
In defence of Just Stop Oil: why condemning their protests says more about you than them
The environmental activist group Just Stop Oil has been in the news again over the last week due to their latest protest – in this case, spray-painting the US embassy orange in response to the election result that has named Donald Trump as President. This is just the latest example of a high-profile protest act […]
There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, is there?
Looking back at the younger version of myself, in my early teenage years and first gaining an awareness of capitalism and beginning to fathom the vast extent of its impacts on the planet and all of the people on it, I remember first coming across the phrase “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism”. The […]
