Category: climate breakdown

Gulf of Understanding

What the governments of the Global North don’t care about, they don’t measure.

Why don’t we get to grips with the climate crisis? Partly because most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich.

To Bill Gates, overthrowing the power of the ultra-wealthy seems to be – literally – unthinkable.

England’s privatised water system leaves us incapable of responding sensibly to droughts.

Trump’s presidency is a reversion to autocratic tyranny. Only concerted resistance can stop it from spreading.

Soil carbon markets are going to collapse. And that’s a good thing.

These people are prepared to destroy everything, as long as they can command the ruins.

Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.

Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?

The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.

How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.

It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.

The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.

Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt.

The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models.

How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction.

It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.

The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.

The power of the very rich prevents us from addressing our two greatest existential threats.

French environmental action puts the UK to shame.