Successive governments stonewall any talk of strategic food reserves. They side with the grasshopper against the ant.

There is nothing that cannot be corrupted, nothing good that cannot be transformed into something bad. And there is no clearer example than the great climate land grab. We now know that it’s not ...

Can we talk about it now? I mean the subject most of the media and most of the political class has been avoiding for so long. You know, the only subject that ultimately counts – the survival of life ...

So what do we do now? After 27 summits and no effective action, it seems that the real purpose was to keep us talking. If governments were serious about preventing climate breakdown, there would have ...

Where do the children play? Where can they run around unsupervised? On most of the housing estates I visit, the answer is hardly anywhere. A community not built around children is no community at all.

I would like to begin by discussing the context in which all journalists operate. If we concentrate, for the moment, on the mainstream media, there is a very limited number of outlets that I would ...

There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence. It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they ...

It sounds like a miracle, but no great technological leaps were required. In a commercial lab on the outskirts of Helsinki, I watched scientists turning water into food. Through a porthole in a metal ...

I can’t help feeling a small surge of gratitude every time an environmental issue breaks the surface. That the state of England’s rivers seems at last to have become an election issue feels slightly ...

Imagine, as many people do, an all-seeing eye in the sky, looking down on planet Earth. Imagine seeing what it sees. It watches, over the course of decades, ice caps shrinking, rainforests retreating, ...

and the totality of the gross domestic product of the human economy. crash on the way. Yet very few of us are prepared to look honestly at the message this reality is screaming at us: that the ...