Environment
The Trumpist agenda going forward
While Donald Trump appears to have lost the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s agenda of populism focused on the working class…
Natural order
The ancients knew nothing about global warming, but they still reflected on the relationship between man and nature. In the…
Who’s excited about a Biden presidency?
‘You all…declare me dead. Guess what? I ain’t dead. I’m not going to die.’ That was Joe Biden back in…
Why fracking matters
Sigmund Freud famously noted that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. In the case of fracking, even Freud would…
Breaking the bank
How to stop trawlers from trashing the North Sea
California burning
Oakland The air in Northern California was thick and yellow in November 2018. The hills were wrapped not in salty…
Extinction Rebellion’s plan for eco-oligarchy
It is very rare (although not unprecedented) for law breakers to attempt to be law makers. But Extinction Rebellion is…
Dam nation
We shouldn’t celebrate the return of the beaver
The greener gender
Eco-friendly is not woman-friendly
The Democrats are fracking insane
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. What could be more emblematic of the American Dream than…
An upstream struggle
In a few years’ time, there could be no more wild salmon in Britain
Fight fire with fire: controlled burning could have protected Australia
Sydney By modern standards, my grandfather would probably be considered an environmental criminal. To clear land for his farmhouse in…
Our tree-planting obsession may do more harm than good
‘Four beef burgers is the same as flying to New York and back! FOUR BURGERS!’ When I arrived at the…
Let’s give Extinction Rebellion protestors what they want
Extinction Rebellion’s leaders have arrived in London by fossil-powered train, car and bus – brandishing their mobile phones full of…
Young recycling zealots are talking rubbish
Church attendances may be falling, but there’s a new religion in town: recycling. Its followers are devout and full of…
Sebastiao Salgado – master of monochrome, chronicler of the depths of human barbarity
Occasionally, we encounter an image that seems so ludicrously out of kilter with the modern world that we can only…
By taking on grouse-shooting, Labour is risking rural jobs
The Glorious Twelfth this year, signalling the start of the grouse-shooting season, was overshadowed by a Labour party press release…
In praise of the bands that said no to Greta Thunberg
My faith in rock music has been temporarily restored. According to the manager of The 1975, the execrable essay/song that…
Were the US shootings racially motivated?
Who wrote ‘Our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country … creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations…
Pure hagiography – the BBC’s Extinction Rebellion: Last Chance To Save The World?
I’m beginning to feel like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers: almost the last person on Earth who…
Re-wilders forget that humans are nature too
‘Life pours back in.’ A score of us, listening to Charlie Burrell at the Knepp estate ten days ago, will…
Greenwashed: The strange triumph of eco-Toryism
Even before the government this week announced a legally binding target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by…
How plastic saved the elephant and tortoise
Plastics — even venerable, historically eloquent plastics — hardly draw the eye. As this show’s insightful accompanying publication (a snip…
The truth about air quality? It’s the best (and cleanest) in living memory
We are, of course, in the midst of an air pollution crisis which, like every other threat to our health…
The trouble with Greta Thunberg
In popular mythology Greta Thunberg is a one-girl revolution who has inspired millions of young people into action by being…
