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A letter to the Travellers’ Solidarity Network.

The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded.

Could an astonishing explanation for the rise and fall of violent crime be correct?

2012 was the worst year for the environment in living memory.

“A sad tale’s best for winter: I have one / Of sprites and goblins.”(1)

Some dead children are mourned; others are dehumanised.

Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it.

Biodiversity offsets threaten both the survival and the meaning of nature.

We cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy.

Robbing the poor, trashing the natural world: Europe’s farm subsidies are an obscenity.

So much for Norway’s eco-friendly image.

There’s a second environmental crisis, just as potent as the first.

I have helped to malign an innocent man.

Isn’t it about time the media stopped publishing recipes for threatened fish?

Why, even now, climate change cannot be mentioned in the presidential election.

Here’s how we can defeat political corruption of the kind that’s destroying US democracy.

An open letter to the former ministers who appear to have let a devastating tree disease into the UK.

How to ensure that journalists don’t listen to you.

That’s what we should call the devastating ash disease now spreading across Britain.

How conservatism turned into an orgy of destruction.