The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know. Read more.
Category: climate change
Mumbo-Jumbo Jets
I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes. Read more.
Sacrifice
The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight Read more.
Life and Death
The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet. Read more.
Cop-Out
The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure. Read more.
A Storm of Ignorance
Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring. Read more.
Look Around
There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale. Read more.
Churchill Syndrome
Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change? Read more.
Nothing to See Here
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media. Read more.
China Syndrome
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese. Read more.
A Prehistory of Violence
It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning. Read more.
A Hole in the System
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us. Read more.
Applauding Themselves to Death
Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change. Read more.
A State Licence to Rob the Public
The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business. Read more.
Produce More, Consume Less
How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies. Read more.
Better Dead Than Different
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism Read more.
Political Straightjacket
If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing. Read more.
Eat Meat and Save the World?
Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence? Read more.
A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction. Read more.
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? Read more.