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The Humbling

We went up against an entire planet. The one we live on. Teenagers enjoying the comforts of home while saying we hate the homemaker and…

Jan 26, 2024

The Humbling

Jan 26, 2024

Get lost

Our entire way of life is unsustainable. So it is probably best, if not vital, to lose our way, and our way of life.

Jan 21, 2024

Get lost

Jan 21, 2024

Try something else

Human survival means returning to a sacred animist culture.

Jan 18, 2024

Try something else

Jan 18, 2024

Another night in the Hypocricity

Governments say there’s a climate crisis. Empty skyscrapers still burn up the sky.

Jan 17, 2024

Another night in the Hypocricity

Jan 17, 2024

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Tilting at wind turbines

Most of what we now call sustainability aims to avoid addressing our predicament.

Nov 26, 2023

Tilting at wind turbines

Nov 26, 2023

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The revolution will not be sensible

The breakdown of industrialised civilisation begins between our ears.

Nov 21, 2023

The revolution will not be sensible

Nov 21, 2023

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Primitive instincts

Stay close to your family and friends. I mean really close.

Nov 19, 2023

Primitive instincts

Nov 19, 2023

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Sustainability and uncertainty

Being “sustainable” is the ecological equivalent of writing ‘love’ to elderly relatives whose house price you’re keeping an eye on.

Nov 14, 2023

Sustainability and uncertainty

Nov 14, 2023

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Gardening won’t save the world

Permaculture and regenerative agriculture aren’t “solutions” to our predicament.

Nov 12, 2023

Gardening won’t save the world

Nov 12, 2023

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On the banality of species

The idea that humans are an advanced species is ridiculous.

Nov 7, 2023

On the banality of species

Nov 7, 2023

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Selling the future

Today the environmental movement does a great deal more marketing than activism, which is excellent…for the market

Nov 5, 2023

Selling the future

Nov 5, 2023

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Awareness raising

Admit it — bullying and killing the poor is what makes us rich

Oct 31, 2023

Awareness raising

Oct 31, 2023

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Testing positive

Our obsession with keeping things positive is looking increasingly desperate.

Oct 29, 2023

Testing positive

Oct 29, 2023

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Honesty box

The natural world and industrialised civilisation are both in the process of collapsing. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Oct 24, 2023

Honesty box

Oct 24, 2023

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The solution delusion — part two

Our obsession with environmental solutions presupposes control we do not have.

Oct 22, 2023

The solution delusion — part two

Oct 22, 2023

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The solution delusion — part one

Environmental communicators should stop lying about solutions, so we can get on with realistic responses.

Oct 18, 2023

The solution delusion — part one

Oct 18, 2023

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Environmentalism, surrender and indoctrination

A recipe for disaster

Oct 15, 2023

Environmentalism, surrender and indoctrination

Oct 15, 2023

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An Introduction to Sustainabile

Humans are myth makers. We live in our stories.

Oct 13, 2023

An Introduction to Sustainabile

Oct 13, 2023

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An apology from an environmentalist

I have worked all over the world as a professional environmentalist. And I’m sorry.

Oct 13, 2023

An apology from an environmentalist

Oct 13, 2023

Awareness Raising

The people we keep in power know pretty much much exactly what they are doing, and we do too.

Jan 25, 2021

Awareness Raising

Jan 25, 2021

Andy Kenworthy

Andy Kenworthy

What generally passes as me makes no sense. I’m writing all the things nobody will pay me to write: the Inconveniently Uncommercialisable Truth.

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