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.
Category: climate breakdown
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.
Dead Line
Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.
Extinction’s Collaborators
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
Absolute Zero
Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.
Population Panic
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
Dysbiosis
The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.
Michael and Me
How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?
Bail Out the Planet
We have the opportunity to reshape our economies to support life on Earth. Governments should take it.
Real Life
This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation.
Suing For Survival
Our legal action against the government aims to shut down fossil fuels
The Most We Can Do
Climate targets seem sensible, but are actually impeding effective action. Let’s do something completely different.
Arresting Destruction
This is my rationale for getting arrested with Extinction Rebellion
Grounded
History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.
Fossil Rebellion
In the midst of climate breakdown, governments around the world are funding and protecting the fossil fuel industry
Snake Oil
Shell is not the green saviour it claims to be, but a planetary death machine
Rewild the World
We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere
First Strike
Drawing on the successes and failures of the past, we must help young climate strikers to win their existential struggle
Re: generation
Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.