Category: environment and the natural world

Embarrassment of Riches

For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.

Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues

Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.

No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse

We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere

Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide

The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning.

By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.

How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age

The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.

As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart

As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act.

The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive

Steven Pinker claims to champion Enlightenment values. But his latest book is an affront to them

Our national parks are ecological deserts, run for the benefit of a tiny minority. It’s time we reclaimed them.

An astonishing new field of enquiry explores the deep changes that could avert a planetary disaster

Is complex society on the brink of collapse?

The government’s 25 Year Environment Plan is a work of cowardice

To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief