When governments abandon us, we must step up
Category: climate breakdown
Deathly Silence
We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown
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 Pollution Paradox
Dirty industries spend more on politics, keeping us in the fossil age.
The Drums of War
The combination of automation, complexity and climate change is dangerous in ways we haven’t even begun to grasp.
The Flight of Reason
Sorry, but you cannot build new runways and prevent climate breakdown
What Lies Beneath
It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.
The Purse is Mightier Than the Pen
The climate crisis is here, now, but a compromised, corrupted media doesn’t want to know.
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?
Nothing to See Here
In the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far), Indonesia has been blotted out by smoke. And the media.
China Syndrome
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.
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.
A Hole in the System
The outrageous, untold story of how big business dumps its costs on us.