Large swathes of UK farmland is underwater – again. Rural flooding is increasing as a result of more periods of intense rainfall. In this section I explained how warming leads to more climate change impacts which we need to adapt to. But there are hard and soft limits to such …
I’ve started a Substack for a number of reasons, one of them being a place to publish articles that for one reason or another never seem to quite fit anywhere else. Yes I could put them up as posts here, but having a Substack just for articles means that, perhaps, …
In 2021, Robert Watson, Wolfgang Knorr and I wrote the article “Concept of net zero is a dangerous trap“. Three years later we concluded that the jaws of this trap are starting to close with climate policy increasingly being framed in terms of what we call “The overshoot myth“. In …
I had the good fortune to work with audio producer Jo Barrett on a podcast about climate change. The commission was for a British Academy funded project that provides online climate and sustainability education to people working in creative industries. My brief was to talk about climate change, tipping points, …
The i paper 10th March 2024 Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Today, we would need to add to this proverb: teach a man to farm fish and you feed billions. Fish …
On Thursday 9th November 2023, the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter hosted George Monbiot for a public seminar. Over the course of one and a half hours George and I discussed how much danger humanity currently faces, the role of young people and protest in producing sustainability …
By some estimates over 100,000 people amassed at central London over the past four days. Key locations in including the heart of the UK Government were the centres of mass die in, biodiversity parades, drumming, chanting, speeches and much more. This was the Big One, a four day action from …
Published in World Politics Review 24th January 2023 There is something very wrong with global food production. From farm to fork, the food system as it currently exists is the most environmentally destructive of all human activities. More than half of the Earth’s habitable land is used for agriculture, and …
The following is a recording and then text of a talk I gave at the Lovelock Centenary event at the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter 31st July 2019 Optimism is an essential component of any proposal for action. Action needs to be driven by hope. Sustainability transformations will not …
