Large-scale livestock production can reduce photosynthesis over vast areas, tipping Earth's scale away from plants and toward animals.

Climate, the environment, and degrowth - Part 2

Climate, the environment, and degrowth - Part 1

Simple living is complex, expensive, and even dangerous in rich countries. The problem is "commoditization." The solution is sound governance.

The United States has entered a major social crisis.

Our wanton destruction of nature is a one-time, irreversible experiment on our shared ecosystem—a threat to humans as well as to the natural world.

Humans have completely overrun the Earth.

Simple living, veganism, and transformation in a world of limits

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

Fact checking ‘net zero beef’ claims. Is this greenwashing or something that holds validity behind corporate-sponsored sustainability narratives.

Reservoir lost 27.8m acre-feet of groundwater in 20 years, study finds, vanishing ‘twice as fast as surface water’

The failure of the climate movement isn’t just political or scientific—it’s philosophical. At its core is a reductionist mindset: isolate one culprit, pursue one goal, rally around one fix. Fossil fue...

American author Ezra Klein has written a book about his vision for the future. The Climate Laundry conducted a rudimentary analysis to determine if he knows what he's talking about. Spoiler alert: he ...

Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Don't over think it.

A system failure that is difficult to discuss

By Dave Darby. Reproduced with permission from lowimpact.org published there 29 October, 2024. It’s essential that we stabilise the global economy. More people understand this every year, but corpo…

Be careful with what you ask for. Because you might not be happy with what you get

Pope Francis has died at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced. 10 years ago, his encyclical, Laudato Si’, was published. This environmental text sought to move the Catholic Church and its concern ...

We can - and should - imagine a better world, and it helps if we know what is possible.

The Churches’ Betrayal of the Animals. Carl Anders Skriver, Ph. D. English translation by Christine McClarnon. Lulu Press, 2025. PDF is available for free; write to cbabookinquiry@gmail.com. To ord…

Abstract. Humanity is facing an important existential threat—irreversible climate change caused by human activity. Until recently, most of the proposals to

Wow, what a mess. Trump and the MAGA Republicans seem to be bent on subverting constitutional and democratic principles and staging a fairly blatant fascist takeover. The economy is beginning to ta…

Simple living, veganism, and transformation in a world of limits

Average figures for the country, regional, or class emissions of greenhouse gases can be deceiving because some people and groups have much larger carbon footprints than others. In this policy brie...

As animal rights activists it’s easy to demonise slaughterhouse workers, the cogs in the machinery of death. We ask ourselves what drives a person to choose to kill sentient beings for hours each day,...

Repeated information is often perceived as more truthful than new information. This finding is known as the illusory truth effect, and it is typically thought to occur because repetition increases pro...

It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot

The successor to East Germany's Communist Party has made a late surge two weeks before a national election after its leader stood up in parliament to lash the front-running conservatives for breaking a historic taboo on cooperating with the far right.

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