The Conservative minister charged with protecting wildlife is making a packet as a result of weak wildlife protection laws.
Category: environment and the natural world
The Big Green Question
Is environmentalism compatible with social justice?
Why Libertarians Must Deny Climate Change
As soon as it encounters environmental issues, the ideology of the new right becomes ensnared in its own contradictions.
Slash and Burn Capitalism
Now the government intends to strip away protection from our most treasured places
How the Greens Were Misled
One man, now embroiled in a shocking scandal, may have done the movement incalculable damage.
Peak Stuff?
Could it be true that resource use is reduced by economic growth?
It’s the Rich Wot Gets the Pleasure
Population is much less of a problem than consumption. No wonder the rich are obsessed by it.
Arrested Development
The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening.
Mutually Assured Depletion
The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.
Jellyfish Rule
Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?
An Answer to the Meaning of Life
The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business.
Shaking the Tree
The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.
Our Crushing Dilemmas
How do environmentalists fight without losing what we’re fighting for?
The Lost World
Where is the environmental vision that can resist the planet-wrecking project?
“Shoot the —- in the Face”
It’s time for those who hate the greens to stop issuing death threats – to me and others.
Power Trips
What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?
The Great Ventriloquist
Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?
A Charming Falsehood
While pressing Stewart Brand to admit he was wrong, it seems that I might have stumbled across a new tactic in the corporate propaganda war.
Is Stewart Brand the New Ian Plimer?
Despite challenging the environmental movement to admit when it gets things wrong, he seems unable to do so himself.
Correspondence with Stewart Brand
Here are the emails Stewart Brand and I have sent to each other