The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse
Search results for: population consumption
The Hills Are Dead
The terrible legacy of European farm subsidies – and how we could use Brexit as an opportunity for something better
Pregnant Silence
It’s about time we discussed the real population crisis.
On Bullshit
The hideous pollution case I stumbled on illustrates our failure to see the harm caused by animal farming.
Wiping the World Clean
The Ecomodernists launching their manifesto today propose solutions that are both ignorant and brutal.
Rural Idiocy
The BBC’s coverage of the countryside is a biased, unquestioning, deferential disgrace.
The Dawning
How I caught a glimpse, through the unlikely medium of roadkill, of what lies beneath.
Slim Chance
New evidence suggests that obesity might be incurable. So why does the government propose to punish sufferers?
China Syndrome
We should stop recycling the old “Yellow Peril” myth. The people most hostile to action on climate change are American and British, not Chinese.
Everything Is Connected
The interactions between wildlife and the physical planet are more complex and fascinating than we could ever have imagined.
The Kink in the Human Brain
Pointless, joyless consumption is destroying our world of wonders.
Spend, Don’t Mend.
Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy.
Plumbing the Depths
A government-backed industrial lobbying campaign is being funded by a stealth tax. It’s an outrage.
The Great Unmentionable
We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions
The Gift of Death
Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.
The Heart of the Matter
This is by far the most interesting and challenging debate about nuclear power I have had to date.
The Mind Thieves
The evidence linking Alzheimer’s disease to the food industry is strong and growing.
Hunger Games
The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.
The Estate We’re In
Thanks to an aristocratic minister, state spending is being used to support pheasant shoots and destroy birds of prey.
It’s the Rich Wot Gets the Pleasure
Population is much less of a problem than consumption. No wonder the rich are obsessed by it.