Climate breakdown became impossible to ignore this week. Yet as Andy Burnham prepares for Number 10, his first major vision speech said nothing about climate – an extraordinary omission after a record-breaking heatwave. In my recent Cambridge University Press article, I argue (again) that Britain must move urgently towards strategic adaptation.
My focus this week is the recently released and incredibly important People's Emergency Briefing film. Read on to find out more about the screening I attended and spoke at, and how to attend or organise a screening yourself – as well as my reflections on the Greens and the Makerfield By-Election.
Something significant may be shifting in British politics. In two recent articles, I explore how climate, energy, resilience and ecological breakdown are becoming defining political fault-lines – and why the future of Green politics may depend on speaking far more broadly to the everyday realities people now face.
In my new piece for Bending the Arc, I sketch a near-future scenario of cascading disruption across energy, food and climate systems – including here in the UK – not as prediction, but to make clear how real these risks now are, and why we urgently need to start responding differently.
I have always believed we have more in common than divides us. In this post I share my new article for Resilience (with Vlad Vexler), and with local elections approaching, remind you to check what is happening in your area – and make sure you are registered to vote!
After the ITV story on the National Security Assessment, this work has now broken further – this time in The Times – and the reality is, we are far more vulnerable to food scarcity than our government would have you believe.
Read about the CMP's new Plan B report launched last week, in which we ask 'Isn’t it time we had a back-up plan – just in case things do go catastrophically wrong?. Find out also about my two new pieces for Resilience with co-authors from the CMP, and with Jem Bendell.
ITV’s investigation confirms long-standing concerns about a suppressed national security assessment on climate and nature breakdown, and what it means for the UK. Meanwhile, the Green Party's Hannah Spencer wins the Gorton and Denton by-election!
I'm using this latest post to again flag the National Security Assessment on Global Biodiversity Loss, linking to related pieces I've written recently for the EDP and on Substack, as well as the exciting new CMP Climate Courage Schools campaign – and how you can get involved.
Earlier this week, UK Government quietly published the Joint Intelligence Committee's Report on Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security. I explain why it matters and what we need to do next.
At the end of 2025, I encourage us to reflect, discussing two different just-released articles with a shared underlying theme.
In this post I remind readers about the two new "must-watch" CMP films, and link to my recent outings on BBC Radio 4, my history Substack and my review of Paul Kingsnorth's book.