It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change.
Category: climate breakdown
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.
Applauding Themselves to Death
Why the UN climate talks have wasted 23 years, and how this can change.
A State Licence to Rob the Public
The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business.
Produce More, Consume Less
How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies.
Better Dead Than Different
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism
Political Straightjacket
If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing.
Eat Meat and Save the World?
Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence?
A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction.