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No More Excuses

No one is coming to save us. Only rebellion will prevent an environmental apocalypse

Why older people must stand in solidarity with the youth climate strikes.

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

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

This is the question everyone should be attending to – where is the food going to come from?

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

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

The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better

It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.

The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.

The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.

The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.

How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.

New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?

We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.

The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.

Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders.

Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.

A government-backed industrial lobbying campaign is being funded by a stealth tax. It’s an outrage.

We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions