How public money and crazy policies speed water off the land and into our homes
Category: environment and the natural world
Walk on the Wild Side
Rewilding, hillwalking and the extraordinary history of these islands.
Life and Death
The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet.
A Storm of Ignorance
Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.
Putting the Con into Consultation
An online tool that changes your answers is not the only problem with this attempt to fake public consent for dredging a dolphin reserve.
False Promise
The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.
Pregnant Silence
It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.
Strategic Incompetence
The agencies supposed to protect the living world have been neutered, and polluters and wildlife destroyers now have a free hand.
The Dolphin Killers of Cardigan Bay
Why does the Welsh government propose this gratuitous act of destruction? It refuses to say.
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.
On Bullshit
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.
Inhospitable Planet
There may be water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth?
Wiping the World Clean
The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.
The Iron Mask
Living as if seen from the future.
Something Stinks
When governments lobby in favour of air pollution, you can be pretty sure there’s corruption involved.
Falling in Love Again
Rebuilding our relationship with the natural world can re-animate our own lives, as well as the ecosystem.
Breaking Faith
The European Union is becoming ever harder for progressives to love. Is it time to get out?
Common Purpose
What better symbol of a regenerating Scotland could there be than a new network of national parks?
Channelling the Joy
In defending the natural world, we should be honest about our motivations – it’s love that drives us, not money.
Thinking Like an Elephant
New insights from the deep past should transform the way we work with forests.