October 4, 2023
OPENING UP A SECOND FRONT AGAINST BIG AG
It’s slightly scary to realise that once we’ve seen off the Evil Empire of Big Oil (and we will – but just not soon enough to avoid cataclysmic climate disruption), that there’s…
November 6, 2022
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure…
July 26, 2022
Sort Out the Meat Monster – or We All Go Down!
Feeding the world, the way we do it today, is now the greatest single threat to the future of humankind. I’ve spent the last three weeks gorging myself on a massive meat feast.…
June 1, 2016
Re-inventing the ‘Limits to Growth’ debate
Still barely a mention about the environment in the Referendum campaign – just another reminder that these issues still have very little cut-through in UK politics. Beyond the…
June 12, 2014
Farm Animals in the Bigger System
“The problem about sustainability is that it’s all about systems thinking. And the modern world just doesn’t do systems thinking – whether you’re talking science, policy-making,…