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Climate breakdown is right here, right now.

The rich world is causing the famines it claims to be preventing.

In the name of saving the natural world, governments are privatising it.

The environment is being trashed because of a failure to reform campaign finance.

Why have the Year Zero policies of neoliberalism not been abandoned?

A new front opens up in the war against nature.

This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out.

The people cutting open bluefin tuna nets are heroes

Enclosure and dispossession have driven us, like John Clare, all a little mad.

We were wrong about peak oil: there’s enough in the ground to deep-fry the planet.

So now what do we do to defend life on Earth?

The Rio Declaration rips up the basic principles of environmental action.

The summits which promise to save the world keep us dangling, not mobilising.

The shocking standards of tabloid weather reporting.

How moral psychology has been used to create a new and toxic political myth.

How Natural England became the servant of the landed classes.

Rural policy is once again the preserve of the elite, and wildlife and people suffer as a result.

I accuse the energy secretary of misleading us about his disastrous new bill.

Thanks to an aristocratic minister, state spending is being used to support pheasant shoots and destroy birds of prey.

The government’s new energy bill puts a match to its climate change commitments.