Jul 01 2024 60 mins 9
In this episode we speak to Sinéad Mercier. Sinéad is a lecturer in
Environmental Law & Policy and PhD Researcher in the Sutherland School of Law
in UCD with the
PROPERTY [IN]JUSTICE project led by Amy
Strecker and Amanda Byer. We discuss Sinéad’s political background, her
engagement with Trade Unionism and work with ICTU; environmental campaigning,
how environmentalism has developed in Ireland, and some of the campaigns and
groups that have played a role in that; Sinéad’s previous experience in
environmental law and as a policy researcher with Senator Alice Mary Higgins
and with the Green Party; and the contrast between an environmentalism still
embedded in colonialism and capitalism and a genuinely transformative socialist
environmentalism and Just Transition.
Sinéad’s paper,
“Four Case Studies on Just Transition: Lessons for Ireland”, can be found on the National Economic and Social Council (NESC) website
. The discussion also mentions Adrian Kane’s book,
Trade Unions
, published by Cork University Press
. Listeners can find the Not Here Not Anywhere campaign to end fossil fuel
infrastructure and exploration at
notherenotanywhere.com.
