Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system.
Category: environment and the natural world
Rooting Out Democracy
The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates
Insectageddon
The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.
The Smog Chancellor
Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.
Urge, Splurge, Purge
The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse
Natural Language
If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.
The Lie of the Land
The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN
Black Box
Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.
A Plant in Government
Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out.
Space Savers
We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all.
Fell Purpose
The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster
The Destructive Party
Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.
Circle of Life
By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.
Primal Thrill
Kayaking with basking sharks provides a glimpse of the wonders we could experience if our seas are rewilded.
Disposable Planet
Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable.
Punishment Posting
Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.
Bonfire of the Verities
Academic standards go up in smoke in a wildly biased paper on burning in the British uplands.
Rare Specimen
My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough
Scorched Earth Conservation
National park authorities inflict mass destruction on wildlife and habitats, then call it conservation
Trickle-Down Theory
How the government learnt absolutely nothing from the recent floods.