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A Tyrant’s Power

If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism.

Cleaning Up

Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials.

Domino Theory

Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.

Wealth Curse

Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?

Looting By Other Means

What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations.

Groundtruthed

Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground.

Surface Tension

Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey.

Miracle of Reduction

To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before.

Baying Mob

Gangs of thugs rampage through the countryside. Yet the police look the other way, and the government does nothing.

Fire Front

Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.

Level Down

The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.

I’m Really Sorry about This….*

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