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In a World of Their Own

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

What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture?

When governments abandon us, we must step up

The government’s Agriculture Bill seeks to replace regulation with public money. Who will contest this new protection racket?

The media’s spotlight systematically distorts the way we see the world

We need to get embarrassing about climate breakdown

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

How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge

The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.

The crucial decisions about major infrastructure are made behind closed doors.

In 1976, we ate more than we do today. So why are we fatter?

Dark money is undermining our democracies, and it’s never darker than when channelled through lobby groups masquerading as think tanks

The little-known history of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at a coming transformation in US politics

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

As our wildlife and ecosystems collapse, remembering is a radical act.

The denial of popular sovereignty by mainstream leaders allows demagogues like Trump to pose as democratic champions.

Defending the living world and its people requires a shift from meat to a plant-based diet

Make bosses pay for the disasters they cause

The “natural capital” agenda is morally wrong, intellectually vacuous, and most of all counter-productive

The wonderful things I learnt during my treatment for prostate cancer