The mythical tiger pursued by helicopters and armed gendarmes speaks volumes about what is missing from our lives. Read more.
Category: culture
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism Read more.
How our governments now talk about human beings. Read more.
Competition and individualism are forcing us into a devastating Age of Loneliness Read more.
And the case for reintroducing big cats. A weird and wonderful tale. Read more.
Do you feel left out? Perhaps it’s because you refuse to succumb to the competition, envy and fear neoliberalism breeds Read more.
We cannot reach people by terrifying them; there has to be a positive agenda. Read more.
How to ensure that nations slide ever further into selfishness, and ever further to the right. Read more.
New research suggests there was no state of grace: for two million years humankind has been the natural world’s nemesis. Read more.
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores. Read more.
A shocking new bill threatens to make this country feel like a giant shopping mall. Read more.
Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair. Read more.
The Lake District’s bid for World Heritage status shows just what a mess conservation is in. Read more.
Promoting extractive industries is seen by politicians as a proper, manly pursuit, even if it makes no sense. Read more.
The ignorance and philistinism of those who attack nature lovers knows no bounds. Read more.
Are repeated sightings of non-existent big cats evidence of a yearning for a wilder life? Read more.
When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave. Read more.
If we lose the ash tree, we’ll lose culture as well as nature. Read more.
Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad. Read more.
What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”? Read more.