By now, most of us are on the same page: the climate is
changing in bad and chaotic ways, the seas are rising, the
rivers are full of sewage and it’s down to us to do
something about it. The people who are opposed to taking
action on environmental problems are somewhere
between scary and dangerous. Environmentalism: seems
like a fairly good idea.
This zine has been written by environmentalists. Some of
us are even the chained-to-the-oil-refinery, living-in-a-
treehouse, shouting-at-the-Shell-AGM, vegan-community-
kitchen kind of environmentalists.
But we – the Organisation of Radical Cambridge Activists
(ORCA) – spend a lot of our time fighting things with
“sustainable” and “green” and “climate” in their titles.
Why? Read on to find out.
We’ve written a zine! You can find it here:
You’re welcome to print a copy yourself:
There wasn’t space in the zine to include sources, so the rest of the page is full of links etc. We might not have added all the sources by the time you read this (slight chaos in the run up to freshers fair!) – please email orca4el@protonmail.com if there are specific claims you want receipts for!
Links
Greenwashing
- Why has BP pulled the plug on its green ambitions?, J Ambrose, The Guardian, 2025-02-26, Archived 2025-07-23
- Coca-Cola to revise ‘misleading’ recycling claims following legal complaint, ClientEarth, 2025-05-06, Archived 2025-05-24
- Cambridge Zero, Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ecocide
- Cambridge Zero Research Themes, Cambridge Zero
Hack Mindset
NOTE: early print editions incorrectly claimed that CCR has fossil fuel funding – sorry, this happened because of an editing miscommunication. We’ve corrected in later editions.
- UN Sessions on Solar Geoengineering Trigger Unease, B Berwyn, Inside Climate News, 2025-09-15, Archived 2025-09-16
- UK to fund outdoor experiments on solar geoengineering, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge, 2025-04-24, Archived 2025-07-23
- Protect Arctic from ‘dangerous’ climate engineering, scientists warn, M Poynting, BBC, 2025-09-09
- Why geoengineering is a human rights nightmare, I Kaminski, The Wave, 2024-01-03
- Scientists to model the impact of controlling Earth’s temperature by reflecting solar radiation, A Morrison, University of Exeter, 2025-04-03
- Refreeze the Arctic, Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair
- End the Carbon Capture Greenwash, Greenpeace Malaysia and RimbaWatch, 2024-02-06
Green Extractivism
- The environmental cost of Western greed in Palestine and the Democratic Republic of Congo, S Onye, Shado Mag, 2024-01-08
- Democratic Republic of the Congo: Industrial mining of cobalt and copper for rechargeable batteries is leading to grievous human rights abuses, Amnesty International, 2023-09-12
- Anglo American: Enhancing social performance in different regions, CISL
- Anglo American, London Mining Network
- Should do better: Anglo American’s mining operations and affected communities in Latin America, London Mining Network, 2022-10
Energy Colonialism
- Siemens Gamesa insists that occupied Western Sahara is Morocco, Western Sahara Resource Watch, 2021-10-07
- The Ouarzazate Solar Plant in Morocco: Triumphal ‘Green’ Capitalism and the Privatization of Nature, Jadaliyya, 2016-03-23
- Dismantling Green Colonialism, Luxemburg, 2022-10
- Energy Transition in North Africa: Colonialism, Dispossession, and Expropriation, Global Dialogue, 2023-11-16
- Renewable energy (in)justice in Latin America, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 2021-08
- Green colonialism in the energy transition, O Basak and I Wakounig, Illuminem, 2024-09-05
- Energy Colonialism, F Müller, Journal of Political Ecology, 2024-05-24
- The EU’s dirty hydrogen push in South Africa – revealed, B Balanyá and Y Moodley, Corporate Europe Observatory, 2025-06-03
Sustainability?
- Axe Drax, Biofuelwatch
- UK accused of funding environmental racism with subsidies to Drax, S Quashie-Idun and D Gayle, The Guardian, 2022-09-26
- Greenwashing: Is this Brazil paper company sustainable?, Deutsche Welle, 2023-06-22
- Brazil: Plantation Company Suzano Covers Up its Devastating Impacts with Claims of “Conservation”, World Rainforest Movement, 2020-05-14
- Suzano agrees long-term collaboration to support conservation and sustainability education and research, Jesus College, 2024-11-15
- Why do Landless women occupy Suzano’s area?, Landless Workers Movement, 2025-03-13
CISL
- CISL & Sustainable Lies, ORCA – hub for links and receipts regarding CISL
Colonial Conservation
- WTF WWF archived 2023-05-08
- Decolonise Conservation Campaign, Survival International
- Proteus Partnership, UNEP-WCMC
Green Zionism
- “Making the Desert Bloom”: A Myth Examined, A George, Journal of Palestine Studies, 1979
- ‘Our hearts burn’: Gaza’s olive farmers say Israel war destroys harvest, L Alsaafin and R Amer, Aljazeera English, 2023-11-06
- The Greening Israel Project
- Green Colonialism in Palestine, Slow Factory
- An Environmental “Nakba”: Water, Trees, and Farms as Tools of Israeli Policy Toward Palestine, P Josephson, 2025-02
- An Environmental Nakba: The Palestinian Environment Under Israeli Colonization, M B Qumsiyeh and M A Abusarhan, Science for the People, 2020
- No, Israel Is Not Making the Desert Bloom, M Shqair, Jacobin, 2023-10-21
- ‘The Most Vegan Army in the World’: How Israel co-opts veganism to justify Palestinian oppression, S Doyel, Mondoweiss, 2019-09-09
Ecofascism
- “Sink the boats – Save the world”: Ecobordering narratives on the British far right, Cable Collective, Undisciplined Environments, 2025-04-22
- Homeland Party: Our Thinking – example of ecofascist policies in the contemporary UK
- How racist myths built the population growth bogey-man, H Ahmad, Global Justice Now, 2019-03-09
Green militarism
- Royal Air Force, accessed 2025-10-06
- Aviation Impact Accelerator, on the website of CISL, accessed 2025-10-06
- Weaponising Universities: Research Collaborations between UK Universities and the Military Industrial Complex, O Ajonye, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, 2024-02-27