Category: climate breakdown

Absolute Zero

Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.

The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.

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.

How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?

We have the opportunity to reshape our economies to support life on Earth. Governments should take it.

This coronavirus is the wake-up call for a complacent civilisation.

Our legal action against the government aims to shut down fossil fuels

Climate targets seem sensible, but are actually impeding effective action. Let’s do something completely different.

This is my rationale for getting arrested with Extinction Rebellion

History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.

In the midst of climate breakdown, governments around the world are funding and protecting the fossil fuel industry

Shell is not the green saviour it claims to be, but a planetary death machine

We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere

Drawing on the successes and failures of the past, we must help young climate strikers to win their existential struggle

Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.

No effective means of stopping climate breakdown is deemed “politically realistic”. So we must change political realities.

When governments abandon us, we must step up

We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown

Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

The media avoids the subject of climate breakdown – to do otherwise is to bring the entire infrastructure of thought crashing down