The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
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The Population Myth
People who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor
Population Bombs
It’s an important issue, but nowhere near the top of the list.
Dying of Consumption
The more we spend, the happier we become. Probably.
Dry Run
The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.
Bully Beef
The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s.
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
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.
Politics Deniers
Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers.
Organised Lying
Almost everyone in public life participates in the assault on truth.
The Plough’s Share
We won’t defend ourselves from the global food crisis by destroying what remains of our wildlife.
Holey Ghosts
Powerful evidence suggests that fishing fleets are deliberately dumping their used nets and lines at sea, threatening the complete collapse of marine ecosystems.
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?
The Erosion of Memory
A famine is being forced on the people of Tigray, the scene of one of the world’s greatest environmental success stories.
Sea Change
At last people are waking up to the fishing industry’s devastating impacts.
Watery Grave
Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.
Michael and Me
How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?