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The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It’ll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn’t going to happen.
Web | Nov 18, 2009
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They are the pillars of the community, champions of the underdog, the scourge of corruption, defenders of free speech. Their demise could deal a mortal blow to democracy. Any guesses yet?
Web | Nov 11, 2009
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Why the sudden surge in climate change denial? Could it be about something else altogether?
Web | Nov 04, 2009
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It’s just a matter of getting Tony Blair in front of a judge. The crazy plan to make this mass murderer EU president could be the chance that many of us have been waiting for.
Web | Oct 29, 2009
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Through 12 years in power, this government of frightened little men has done nothing to reform the democratic world’s most illiberal laws, which permit an old-fashioned judge to punish us for holding power to account.
Web | Oct 21, 2009
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A damning judgement on army killings suggests that officials at every level have covered up torture and murder
Web | Oct 06, 2009
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Those who claim that population growth is the big environmental issue are shifting the blame from the rich to the poor. The problem? It’s not sex; it’s money. It’s not the poor; it’s the rich.
Web | Sep 30, 2009
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Regulation without strict enforcement is an open invitation to mess with people’s lives. Tedious directives, state power and bureaucratic snooping are all that stand between civilisation and corporate hell.
Web | Sep 23, 2009
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Just raise the volume, keep moving and hope that people won’t notice the trail of broken claims. That's what Creationists and climate change deniers have in common: they don’t answer their critics.
Web | Sep 16, 2009
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The only people who will not be harmed by the banking crisis are the bankers who caused it.
Web | Sep 09, 2009
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The targets and methodology being used by governments and the UN - which will form the basis for their negotiations at Copenhagen - are irrelevant. We need a radical new approach to cutting greenhouse gases, and it might have arrived.
Web | Sep 01, 2009
Debate
No amount of ethical shopping or determined protesting is going to stop the industrial society from collapsing, argues Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot: It's a fight worth fighting, or let billions perish
Web | Aug 18, 2009
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I live in the last small corner of Gaul still holding out against the Romans -- a small market town yet to be conquered by the superstores. But, being deficient in magic potion, we have precious little chance of stopping them...
Web | Aug 11, 2009
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Is it paranoia, or are they really out to get us? Most of the time it’s paranoia. But some of the UK’s public authorities really do regard political activism as a threat that must be contained or eliminated
Web | Aug 04, 2009
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Let us help poorer nations to reduce deforestation and clean up pollution. But let us not pretend that it lets us off the hook. Here is the simple mathematical reason why large scale carbon offsets can't work
Web | Jul 14, 2009
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Air travel to and from the UK has plummeted. Several small airlines have gone bust; British Airways has deployed its landing gear. In some respects, according to the industry, this descent could be permanent. Yet the government is still planning to double the capacity of our airports by 2030.
Web | Jul 07, 2009
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The UN's proposal for decriminalisation is senseless and destructive. We should help addicts, but lock up the casual users of cocaine
Web | Jun 30, 2009
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The last time we faced a crisis on the scale of the global climate crash, the rational solution was to build tanks. Now the rational, least painful solution is to stop building tanks, and use the money to address a real threat.
Web | Jun 23, 2009
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The social unrest that might have transformed British politics was instead outsourced to its colonies and unwilling trading partners. After decolonisation, plunder of other nations was sustained by the banks. Now, for the first time in three centuries, they can no longer deliver, and we must at last confront our problems.
Web | Jun 09, 2009
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Why is no one brave enough to stand up to the fishing industry? What hold does the fishing industry have over our ministers and officials? Does it sink the bodies of their political opponents? Does it supply them with call girls and cocaine?
Web | Jun 02, 2009