Category: climate breakdown

Rebelling Against Extinction

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

Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age.

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

Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown

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

The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.

We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.

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.