Issue One: All Together Now

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• ALL TOGETHER NOWClimate Coroners Issue #1
• Page 2editor's letter contributors (4) digital magazines (5) spot the difference (13) COP31 (19) sustainable swaps (27) CONTENTS
• EDITOR'S LETTERIt's not easy to share your thoughts, feelings and research with the world, but Issue One is proof of why we should. This magazine exists through the collective efforts of young creatives and forward-thinkers who choose to speak up. Without this collaboration, young people would have few other spaces to make themselves heard on a crisis that will quite possibly define the future of our generations: climate change. For many young people, the climate crisis is a constant concern. Many young people today are "extremely worried" about the climate and over half of them believe that their futures will be affected. It has been a topic so long outstanding that we've even coined the term 'climate fatigue to explain our inaction! But this issue seeks to bring it back to the forefront of our discussions. This issue is a chance for something different: it's somewhere young people can speak for themselves, creatively and authoritatively. In this issue, we turn our attention to our home, the Southwest. From flooding in the Somerset Levels, wildfires and disrupted food supplies, to the loss of cities like Glastonbury and no snowfall by the end of the century, the message is clear: climate change is going to affect us. With COP31 on the horizon and 2030 targets fast approaching, the urgency of our attention has never been greater.
• Page 4DIGITAL MAGAZINES a sensible solution or sustainability sin? DIGITAL
• Page 5so what is digitisation doing to the environment? 7
• Page 69 Deforestation: 100 million hectares of forest are con- sumed by the paper industry yearly (that's an area the size of Egypt!). Areas that have been felled can no longer absorb carbon dioxide, so contribute to greenhouse gas emissions and soil erosion. However, there are certifica- tions in place to protect UK forests and wood is naturally occurring and renewable. Some companies even promise to plant more than they fell.
• Page 711 WHICH DO You
• Spot The DifferenceSeptember 2025 February 2026
• Page 915 s of a 2025 report, the Blagdon reservoir's water quality and biodi- ersity were found to be poor. It contained high amounts of pollut- nts, such as copper and mercury, and the cause was found to be oor waste management from local sewage and agricultural indus- ries. We no longer use the reservoir for drinking water, of course but this means that what little rain we get in the Summer goes to vaste. Bristol Water oversee the Chew Valley, Cheddar and Blagdon eservoirs in Somerset, and last August the total water storage for his area was at 50%. On the same date in 2024, storage fulfilment was at 73%. Water shortages are becoming increasingly common, and new business and housing developments make the pressure worse.
• Page 10By 2050, these numbers could increase to a quarter of UK homes flooding. The building of 1.5 million more homes has been proposed for the coming years, but more than 10% of these are being built in areas prone to flooding. And in less than 25 years, by the time most us will be in our middle age, half of the rail network - a public trans- port system that could reduce our emissions overall - will be con- sumed by floodwater. Development can increase the economy, yes, but it will reduce the amount of rain being absorbed into the earth and will only drive flooding further. Moreover, many famers in Somerset are suffering the blows of heavy rainfall, with their crops - and our homegrown food supply - being rotted by the floodwater. The agricultural sector lost &1 billion in crops alone in previous years of flooding.
• Page 1119 Giving you the lowdown on COP31
• Page 1221 THE AIMS OF COP31:
• Page 1323 BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH.
• Page 1425 References:
• Page 1527 sustainable
• Page 1629 reusable menstrual products
• Page 1731 straws
• THE WRONG AMAZON IS BURNINGJasmine Wiseman-Doyle While the Amazon rainforest burns, it is not mere- ly the forest that is being scorched,but the fun- damental values of a social order that prioritises profit over preservation, and short-term gain over the long-term survival of humanity. As a society, by focusing on the fire itself, we risk missing the broader inferno- the social, political and econom- ic structures that have allowed the climate crisis in the first place. The prevailing social order mis- aligns global priorities with an industrialised dom- inant social paradigm (DSP), caring too deeply for consumption-driven economic and individual gain over a sustainable human-nature relationship. 33
• Page 1935 notions where there's 'romanticism', 'detachment, 'utilisation' and 'mastery'; this shift is perhaps the most drastic with humans be- ginning to view nature as a commodity to conquer, control and profit. This final segment is considered our current society's per- spective and marks our newfound anthropocentric outlook on the environment.
• Page 2037 directly affects our human-nature relationship as "the bourgeoi- sie can not exist without constantly revolutionising the instru- ments of production, and thereby relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society" (Marx 476). As corpora- tions constantly seek new raw materials and cheaper labour for greater economic growth, this proportionately negatively affects the state of our planet. For instance, fossil fuel companies such as BP, Shell and Enquest opportunistically expand their opera- tions into previously untouched areas which consequently leads to oil spills, the destruction of natural habitats and an increase in carbon emissions. In fact, more than half of the oil spills in the UK over the last decade have ended up in marine protected ar- eas, not only endangering the planet, but endangering already threatened habitats and species. This damaging, yet seemingly imperative need for constant expansion mirrors capitalist ideolo- gy and alienates humans from not only the products and conse- quences of their labour, but also the natural environment. Hence, this has damaged our human-nature relationship as we have begun to view nature as a resource to be sold as opposed to an environment to be nourished. Until our perspective shifts from one that views our planet as a product to exploit for profit, our environment will continue to rapidly deteriorate.
• Page 2159 Hi, I'm Jasmine Wiseman-Doyle, a stu- dent at the university of Exeter.
• photography by BRADLEY BAKERHey, I'm Brad. I'm 19 years old. I got into photography through helping a friend with an art project and ever since then I have oved using my camera; I currently have a Canon 2000D but am hoping to upgrade soon. My favourite things to photo- graph are cars, wildlife and portraits. One day I hope to become a wedding photographer or have my own photography studio.
• Page 23Colready Farm, Northamptonshire
• Page 24Bath, North Somerset
• Page 25Oldland Common, Bitton
• US and IRAN2 UKRAINE and RUSSIA
• 1. US and IRANAt the heart of the US-Iran conflict are fossil fuels. Both the driver and the consequenc e of this action is oil. I'm sure you've already heard of the Strait of Hormuz, where 85 tankers carrying unimaginable li- tres of oil is trapped in the Persian Gulf. If a spill were caused by the attack on a single tanker, marine ecosystems in the Gulf could be damaged beyond repair. This includes the loss of coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass meadows. Not only would local communities suffer, but communities both hu- man and biodiverse could be affected further ashore. Fossil fuels play a key role in the power struggles that make war more likely in the first place. Trump, for example - yeah, him again - took military action against Venezuela after he de- clared the US should be "very strongly involved" in their oil industry (Venezuela has the largest crude oil reserves in the world - go figure). 2. RUSSIA and UKRAINE
• 1. ENERGY2. BIODIVERSITY 53
• Page 2955 The environmental costs of war show us how important the energy transition is not only to the climate but to our national security.
• CAN'T TELL THE CTHERE 57
• Big Yellow Taxi Cab - Joni MitchellThe Seed - Aurora Plastic Beach - Gorillaz
• The world what you h61 say.
• deserves have to Issue #2: EducationNext issue, we want to explore the connection between educa- tion and the climate. This could mean telling us your proposals for how to integrate the conversation into classrooms, it could be your own experiences of learning about the crisis, of who taught you and how. Perhaps there's something we don't know enough about that you could explore? This might also involve what we can learn from nature, and the local and indigenous ways we can do this. Get in touch: @climatecoronersmag on Insta
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