Climate Change

After her Pulitzer-winning The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert’s new book, Under a White Sky, describes the world of “techno-fixes” to the damage we have inflicted on nature. Today, the world faces the dilemma that even the most well-intentioned interventions risk making matters worse, though we may no longer have the luxury of refusing them. In a century that will be shaped by the climate crisis, learning to navigate humanity’s “mixture of hubris and cluelessness” when dealing with nature will be essential.

Meat products grown in a laboratory could soon be widely available but is this something environmentalists should welcome and support?

Citizens’ assemblies will not be a silver bullet for the climate crisis.

For proponents of deliberative democracy, today’s representative regimes offer nothing more than illusion.

China’s action on climate is often touted as decisive and admirable. But its human and environmental costs cannot be ignored.

A conversation with the acclaimed novelist on the parallels between the climate crisis and the pandemic, and imagining alternatives for our interconnected world.

Does the authors’ vision of a coming planetary sovereignty – or of the alternatives – still hold?

Reflections from a landmark conference at Lund University which examined the political ecology of the far right, and why progressives must be awake to this.

What strategies does Alternative für Deutschland use to discredit school strikers, and why does climate mobilising generate such a strong reaction on the Right?

Uncontrollable fires rage across the world. What does it mean to live in the Pyrocene epoch?