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The New Coal Age
A vast new opencast pit will ruin local people’s lives and wreck the government’s climate change policies. How was it allowed to happen?
The Great Blob Coalesces
The massive mergers taking place are a disaster for democracy
Moo Woo
What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing.
The Long Wait
Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt.
Hard Labour
This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.
The Programme
A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.
Baked In
The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models.
Billionaires Are Bad for Us
How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction.
Hell Holes
Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them.
Careful Now
Should we blow up pipelines?
Wealth of Nature
How has Costa Rica managed to restore its natural wonders, while big, rich nations fail?
Meatwashing
Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash.
The Hunger Gap
A gulf in public understanding prevents us from seeing how and why our food supply is at risk.
So What Would You Do?
Those who dismiss this solution to the greatest threat to Earth systems have a duty to propose a better one. So where is it?
Silence of the Lambs
Livestock farming is responsible for more greenhouse gas pollution than all the world’s transport. Yet governments won’t touch it.
Cliff Edge
Here’s how it happened before – a mass extinction caused by fossil fuel burning. It will happen again unless we step back from the precipice.
The Oligarch’s Oligarch
Just as we need to get the money out of politics, we have been gifted a Prime Minister who represents the ultra-rich.
Malignant Growth
An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe.
The Undead
Liz Truss promises to double down on policies that have been completely discredited.