The government’s attempt to hide a toxic waste disaster heralds a new bonanza for organised crime.
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Politics Deniers
Those who claim that we can prevent environmental collapse without political pressure or political change are now more dangerous than climate deniers.
Gastastrophe
Thanks to a series of astonishingly foolish decisions, Europe has allowed Vladimir Putin to control much of its energy supply. Here’s what it needs to do.
Putin’s Megaphone
It’s a hard truth to face, but a segment of the “anti-imperialist” left has amplified Vladimir Putin’s imperial propaganda.
Blatant Opportunism
Tory MPs cynically disguise their concern for the profits of fossil fuel companies as concern for the poor.
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.
Fire Front
Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism.
Extinction’s Collaborators
How the media stoked the climate crisis.
Absolute Zero
Every new climate pledge is an attempt to distract people from the failed ones it replaces.
Democratic Revolution
Full-scale participatory democracy would change everything. It has the same revolutionary potential as the universal franchise and women’s suffrage.
Population Panic
The obsession with the birthrates of the poor has a grim history, and is used by the rich to transfer blame.
Michael and Me
How did the radical film maker Michael Moore become a hero of the far right?
Suing For Survival
Our legal action against the government aims to shut down fossil fuels
Those Who Trespass Against Us
This proposed new law would make us strangers in our own nation, by criminalising trespass.
Saving Our Bacon
Farmfree foods might be the only thing that gets us – and much of the rest of the living world – through this century.
Life Enhancing
Allowing the seas to recover from the outrageous assaults of commercial fishing can help heal our own wounded lives.
Rewilding Politics
It’s not just governments we need to change, but the entire, top-down, 19th Century political system. And we can start, right now, in our towns and cities.
Embarrassment of Riches
For the sake of life on Earth, we should set an upper limit on the money any person can amass.
Grounded
History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.