Category: environment and the natural world

The Unseen World

To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief

Economic growth will destroy everything. There’s no way of greening it – we need a new system.

The Sheffield tree massacre is one result of the monstrous, impenetrable officialdom that neoliberalism creates

The scale and speed of environmental collapse is beyond imagination.

Who is the world’s leading environmental vandal? The answer may surprise you.

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse

If we want people to engage with the living world, we should stop using such constipated terms to describe our relationship to it.

The Lake District’s world heritage status reveals a widespread betrayal of the living world, by both conservation groups and the UN

Unesco’s tragicomic aversion to public engagement.

Another deadly tree disease threatens these islands, but the government will do nothing to keep it out.

We have enough physical and ecological space for public luxury for all. But not enough for private luxury for all.

The attempt to turn the Lake District into a World Heritage site would be a disaster

Those who claim to be “conservatives” would shred the very fabric of the nation.

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

Kayaking with basking sharks provides a glimpse of the wonders we could experience if our seas are rewilded.

Consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable.

Want to cast someone into the outer darkness? Then give them the environment department, that should be the most important portfolio of all.

Academic standards go up in smoke in a wildly biased paper on burning in the British uplands.

My interview, in his 90th year, with Sir David Attenborough

National park authorities inflict mass destruction on wildlife and habitats, then call it conservation