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How the Billionaires Broke the System

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

To prevent climate breakdown, we need to declare most of the fossil fuels in the earth’s crust off-limits.

The government and the industry promised that they had dealt with aminopyralid poisoning. They haven’t.

What do we do about the power of the corporate media? Here’s one answer.

Have I just witnessed the beginning of the end of vertebrate ecology?

Here’s the scorching debate I had with Doug Parr from Greenpeace and others last night.

The machinations of the industry shouldn’t be allowed to spoil the case for nuclear power.

On Thursday 7th July, I’ll be thrashing out the issues with Greenpeace and others. Come along if you can.

As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.

My letter to Media Lens over the issue of the massacre at Srebrenica.

Why was the Labour government telling two different stories about peak oil?

The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse.

The well-intentioned dolts putting a price on nature are delivering it into the hands of business.

The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried.

I challenge Jonathon Porritt to explain his contention that nuclear power and renewables are incompatible.

How will the UK achieve a 50% carbon cut by 2027? By getting someone else to make our stuff.

We can now see what the impact of has been of the police decision to turn off Oxfordshire’s speed cameras.

Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems?

Christopher Booker is now in even deeper trouble than before: damned in a High Court judgement. Yet still the Sunday Telegraph employs him.

The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.