Hidden in the detail of the UK’s carbon capture and storage scheme are unlimited financial liabilities and huge environmental costs.
Category: climate breakdown
Without Mercy
Why do the mass killers of the fossil fuel industry walk free while the heroes trying to stop them are imprisoned?
Soaked
The bodies meant to protect us from floods are unaccountable, self-serving and feudal in character. No wonder they keep failing.
Perceptionware
How to create an appearance of progress while doing nothing.
Nationalise Us
It’s ridiculous that governments leave it to people like me to communicate the need for environmental action.
Dry Run
The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.
The Long Wait
Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt.
Baked In
The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models.
Billionaires Are Bad for Us
How economic power leads inexorably to environmental destruction.
Running Amoc
It’s because the climate crisis is now visible to everyone that governments are giving the fossil fuel industry everything it demands.
All Hat and No Cattle
The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming.
All-Consuming
The power of the very rich prevents us from addressing our two greatest existential threats.
Sacré Vert
French environmental action puts the UK to shame.
Thriving on Catastrophe
Why the climate crisis and the global rise of fascism are inextricable.
Hell Holes
Fossil fuel companies walk away from the lands they have devastated, often without paying a penny to restore them.
Careful Now
Should we blow up pipelines?
Arsonists
This government runs on dirty money. That’s why it’s torching the planet.
Meatwashing
Claims that cattle ranching sequesters carbon and restores ecosystems have been used in highly effective marketing campaigns by the livestock industry. Just one problem: they’re greenwash.
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.