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.
Category: climate breakdown
Days of Rage
System change is – and has always been – our only realistic means of defending the living planet.
Willing the End
On both sides of the Atlantic, powerful interests seem determined to trigger the collapse of life on Earth. Why?
Revolt Against Debt
This could be how the fight against climate breakdown reaches critical mass.
Politics Deniers
Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers.
Noisily Doing Nothing
The failure to adapt to new realities is not an accident. It’s the design.
Payday
It’s not decarbonisation that’s unaffordable. It’s climate breakdown.
Gastastrophe
Thanks to a series of astonishingly foolish decisions, Europe has allowed Vladimir Putin to control much of its energy supply. Here’s what it needs to do.
Blatant Opportunism
Tory MPs cynically disguise their concern for the profits of fossil fuel companies as concern for the poor.
Carbon Colonialism
Predatory corporations are making a mockery of natural climate solutions, as they grab land and bamboozle the public.
Losing It
Faced with the gathering collapse of the biosphere, and governments’ refusal to take the necessary action, how do we stop ourselves from falling apart?
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?
Looting By Other Means
What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations.
Groundtruthed
Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground.
Surface Tension
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey.
Miracle of Reduction
To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before.
Level Down
The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.
On The Cusp
Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets.
Ground Rules
We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis.