I try to work out how much money would be needed to restore a functioning state.
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Shitshow
Toxic chemicals deliberately added to sewage are being spread across a vast area of farmland, with potentially catastrophic effects. We’re suing the government to stop it.
Extreme Prejudice
The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation.
The Flickering
Earth systems are being rushed towards their tipping points by governments that offer us nothing but chaos.
No Excuses
War crimes have no justification, whoever commits them.
The System, Unmasked
Clinically vulnerable people are among the many realities denied in the endless drive for “normality”.
Necroculture
The mass release and shooting of pheasants trashes our ecosystems – and our humanity.
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
Trainwreck
How do HS2 and other white elephants get commissioned? It’s clientelism – the subtle form of corruption.
What’s Your Poison?
Why do we put up with daily assaults on our health? It has everything to do with corporate power.
Shining a Light
Our forthcoming film about the undisclosed interests trashing our lives.
Unspeakable
How our lives came to be dominated by a few dozen plutocrats and their thousands of concierges.
The Bird Cage
The remarkable story behind the disciplining of a major charity shows how power really works.
Six Legs Good
My very amateur photos of some magnificant creatures in the French Alps.
The Unhowled Land
Without wolves or lynx, our ecosystems remain barren, depleted and overrun by proliferating deer.
The Mingling
How sea kayaking sustains me.
Running Amoc
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.
All Hat and No Cattle
The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.
The Door Is That Way
The striking new plan to let voters reclaim democracy in a profoundly undemocratic system.
Scapegoat Season
Instead of addressing our multiple ecological disasters, those with power are attacking wildlife defenders.