Category: environment and the natural world

How the Greens Were Misled

One man, now embroiled in a shocking scandal, may have done the movement incalculable damage.

Could it be true that resource use is reduced by economic growth?

Population is much less of a problem than consumption. No wonder the rich are obsessed by it.

The wild boar cull should be halted, and we should stop confusing conservation with gardening.

The EU, Norway, Iceland and the Faroes all blame each other for smashing the last great fish stock. All are wrong.

Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?

The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business.

The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.

How do environmentalists fight without losing what we’re fighting for?

Where is the environmental vision that can resist the planet-wrecking project?

It’s time for those who hate the greens to stop issuing death threats – to me and others.

What could be sillier and more invidious than the Observer’s “eco-power list”?

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?

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.

Despite challenging the environmental movement to admit when it gets things wrong, he seems unable to do so himself.

Here are the emails Stewart Brand and I have sent to each other

A new film on Channel 4 disses the greens while dodging the issue of power.

Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t appear to exist.

The draft global plan for saving biodiversity contains no firm proposals at all.

We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.