Category: environment and the natural world

The Tyranny of Hope

World summits and politicians’ promises are not taking us closer to environmental salvation, but further away.

Across the UK, our rivers are being turned into filthy, dead gutters, at astonishing, heartbreaking speed.

The great majority of people do not want to return to business-as-usual after the pandemic, but our governments are determined to make us do so.

How did wildlife groups start collaborating in the destruction of nature?

The boats supplying the fish we eat are killing dolphins so fast that they are heading towards extinction.

Despite growing awareness, our government still allows landowners to help flood the homes of people living downstream.

Allowing the seas to recover from the outrageous assaults of commercial fishing can help heal our own wounded lives.

The political parties have finally woken up to the environmental crisis. But the media hasn’t

For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.

Thanks to shocking failures of government, every tree, almost everywhere, is now threatened by killer plagues

Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system.

No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse

We launch a new campaign to allow ecosystems to recover on a massive scale, drawing down carbon from the atmosphere

Those who destroy the living world should be charged with the international crime of ecocide

The UK government is flagrantly flouting its own rules, allowing our scrap tyres to be sent to India for burning.

By downplaying and misrepresenting our environmental crisis, David Attenborough and the BBC have generated complacency, confusion and ignorance.

How an animal welfare charity ended up endorsing seal killing – and what this says about our age

The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.

As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart