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Money’s Hunger

Industrial civilisation is trashing the environment. Should we try to reform it or just watch it go down?

This hung parliament is the first and possibly last chance we have to transform politics. We must seize it.

Almost half the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions have gone missing. Here they are, and here are the amazing implications.

It’s time we stopped voting fearfully, and rewarding the most right-wing government the UK has had since 1945.

Grassroots campaigns could break Britain’s corrupt political system

Why are radical politics electable in Wales but not in England?

Has our society become too complex to sustain?

International law presents a radical challenge to the powerful: they could be judged by the same standards as the rest of us.

We explore the mutual incomprehension across the climate emails divide

Science and humanities students view each other with incomprehension: blame our dumb, narrow schooling.

The police treat protests and festivals as a threat to their power

What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

I learn, once again, that telling brutal truths isn’t the best way of winning friends

Here’s one small way in which the collapse of biodiversity could be slowed

The scheme for supporting renewables that the UK is importing from Germany has been a disaster there.

In fighting for science, we subscribe to a comforting illusion: that people can be swayed by the facts.

I’m being hounded for taking a stand against feed-in tariffs: here’s a riposte to the critics.

A TV debate about whether climate change is happening

The feed-in tariffs about to be introduced here are extortionate, useless and deeply regressive.

How the ultra-rich enslave themselves