Category: climate breakdown

A Prehistory of Violence

It now looks as if the greatest mass extinction on Earth – 250 million years ago – was caused by fossil fuel burning.

The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.

Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.

The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.

How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies.

Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism

If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.

Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?

Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.

When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means?

How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world.

Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking.

The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine.

How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires.

The US disease has arrived in Britain: representatives waging an all-out war against science.

Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich.

Could fracking prevent climate change denial?

A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won?

Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows.

We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions