Category: climate breakdown

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Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer.

The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry.

How to alienate people from the green transition.

If this crucial circulation system shuts down, the civilisational impacts will be irreversible. So why isn’t it a top priority?

If it is sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that’s because there isn’t one.

How Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson turned a metaphor into a reality.

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.