No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse
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Re: generation
Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.
In Memoriam
As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act.
Butchery of the Planet
Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet
We Can’t Keep Eating Like This
This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?
Everything Must Go
Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system.
Urge, Splurge, Purge
The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse
The Hills Are Dead
The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better
Pregnant Silence
It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.
On Bullshit
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.
Wiping the World Clean
The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.
Rural Idiocy
The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.
The Dawning
How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.
Slim Chance
New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?
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.
Everything Is Connected
The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.
The Kink in the Human Brain
Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders.
Spend, Don’t Mend.
Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.
Plumbing the Depths
A government-backed industrial lobbying campaign is being funded by a stealth tax. It’s an outrage.
The Great Unmentionable
We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions