A self-perpetuating political spiral is blocking the easier ways of preventing environmental collapse.
Author: monbiot
Lying Through Their Teeth
What the government has done to NHS Dentistry is what it wants to do to the rest of our public services.
Silence in Court
Environmental protesters are forbidden to explain their motivations to juries, making a mockery of justice.
Uncivil War
This senseless lawsuit could bankrupt the Labour party and let the Tories win again.
How to Build a Bioweapon
There’s a legal means of creating a pandemic that could kill millions.
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?
Covid Roulette
Your next infection could be the one that permanently disables you.
Controlling and Coercive Behaviour
What does democracy mean, under governments like this?
Bleeding Out
Thanks to systemic and deliberate underfunding, NHS Emergency departments are now a vision of hell.
Burning Shame
Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake.
Protection Racket
The more destructive the business, the more likely it is to enjoy political protection.
Fermenting a revolution
I believe this is the most important environmental technology ever developed. It might be all that now stands between us and Earth systems collapse.
How About Never?
Powerful governments have no intention of preventing climate breakdown.
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.
Our Path
Because Twitter threads aren’t working at the moment (thanks Elon!), I’m republishing a chain of tweets about how we should rise to the challenge of democratic collapse.
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.
The Art of Life
Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life?
Malignant Growth
An obsession with economic growth is driving us towards catastrophe.
Thinktanking the Country
The BBC’s promotion of dark-money lobby groups no longer looks like an accident. It looks like a policy.