Category: climate breakdown

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.

Hopeless Realism

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

The Smog Chancellor

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

Don’t Look Now

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

The Drums of War

The combination of automation, complexity and climate change is dangerous in ways we haven’t even begun to grasp.

What Lies Beneath

It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.

Mumbo-Jumbo Jets

I see the people on trial for occupying a runway at Heathrow as democratic heroes.

Sacrifice

The joints of meat that do more damage than a long-haul flight

Life and Death

The remarkable decline in violence between humans suggests that we could also restrain our violence against the planet.

Cop-Out

The COP21 climate talks in Paris were not the success that governments claim, but a disastrous failure.

A Storm of Ignorance

Censoring official advice, stripping the hills and rivers, the government ensures that disasters like the Cumbria floods will keep recurring.

Look Around

There are plenty of real problems with aircraft emissions. But thousands of people are obsessed instead with a fairy tale.

Churchill Syndrome

Why is the government so quick to bomb, yet so slow to act on climate change?