'Overpopulation' Is A Racist Trope. It's Time We Laid It To Rest
A new movie satirises the myth that climate change is a consequence of too many people. In the real world, our overpopulation obsession must be euthanised.
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Taylor Swift, Climate Guardian? On Harnessing The Power Of The Swifties
Without dipping into white saviourism, Taylor could make a great climate messenger. But that's up to her legions of fans.
This Ideology Is Destroying Our World. Dare We Name It?
It's not humans who are wrecking the planet, but a poisonous doctrine we've been programmed into believing, argue George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison in a new book.
Polluters' Puppets: Why We All Spread Fossil Fuel Propaganda, And How To Stop
In a new book, scholar Genevieve Guenther explains how the fossil fuel industry has appropriated the language of climate advocates to maintain the status quo, and offers a way out of the trap.
On Losing My Father To Prostate Cancer, And What We Must Learn From Him
An epidemiologist who helped eradicate smallpox and who wrote the book on public health medicine, Dr. Norman John Vetter imagined a better world than this. Our duty must be to deliver it.
In The Wild West Of Carbon Offsets, Who Plays The Sheriff?
The apparent endorsement of carbon offsets by a leading standards watchdog was welcomed with jubilation by those who sell them. Everyone else is steaming mad about it. Here's why.
'Everything Is Political': 'Black Girl Environmentalist' Wawa Gatheru On Social Media and Climate Justice
Kenyan-American activist Wawa Gatheru is a rising star of the climate justice movement. The Rhodes Scholar and Forbes 30/30 recipient spoke to me about taking the fight to both Big Tech and Big Oil