At extraordinary speed, the government is shutting down crucial political freedoms. We must resist while we still can.
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A Tyrant’s Power
If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism.
Cleaning Up
Thanks to disgraceful government failures, an illegal waste-dumping mafia is now burning and burying millions of tonnes of dangerous materials.
Domino Theory
Our last, best hope of averting systemic environmental collapse is to use the peculiarities of complex systems to trigger cascading political regime shifts.
Wealth Curse
Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich?
Looting By Other Means
What the rich nations owe the poor is not climate aid or climate loans. It’s climate reparations.
Groundtruthed
Almost everything being said by powerful governments at COP26 is a distraction from the crucial task: keeping fossil fuels in the ground.
Surface Tension
Our survival depends on piercing the glassy surface of distraction, and ceasing to obey.
Miracle of Reduction
To avert environmental disaster, we need sudden and drastic change. Impossible? No, it has been done before.
Baying Mob
Gangs of thugs rampage through the countryside. Yet the police look the other way, and the government does nothing.
Fire Front
Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.
Level Down
The living world is being hit by everything at once: the only way to stop our full-spectrum assault on Earth systems is to reduce our economic activity.
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Spirited Away
How the counterculture fell prey to the far-right’s conspiracy theories.
The Best-Laid Plans
The Conservatives promised that communities could reshape their own towns. As the shocking case of Totnes shows, it’s a con.
On The Cusp
Earth systems could tip before 2050. We urgently need more stringent climate targets.
Ground Rules
We cannot build our way out of the environmental crisis.
Bloodhounds
The media’s lust for blood helped march us into the disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wants us to forget that.
Dead Line
Future corporate profits are officially more important than life on Earth.
Noble Rot
Protecting the natural world means creating tomorrow’s ancient habitats.