Publications

ABC Religion and Ethics

Imagining the world after COVID-19
Imagining the world after COVID-19

APPG Agroecology

APPG Briefings on the Precautionary Principle (Climate Change and Animal Welfare)
APPG Briefing on the Precautionary Principle: Lords and the EU (Withdrawal) Bill

Bank Underground

How should regulators deal with uncertainty? Insights from the Precautionary Principle

Byline Times

Communities Need to Take Contact Tracing into their Own Hands
Negotiating The Space Between Apocalypse And Victory
The Hard Facts of COVID-19 Demolish the UK Government's Deadly 'Herd Immunity' Strategy
The Hard Facts Of COVID-19 Demolish the UK Government's Deadly 'Herd Immunity' Strategy
'Test and Trace' is a Dangerous Omnishambles
REVIEW: Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans
Documents Reveal Government and NERVTAG Breached Own Scientific Risk Assessment Guidance in COVID-19 Failure

Common Dreams

Sanders' Green New Deal: A Realistic Response to the Emergency That Will Define Our Lifetimes

Compass

The coronavirus gives humanity one last chance - but for what exactly?

Cornell University Library

The Precautionary Principle (with application to the genetic modification of organisms)

Die Zeit

Justus Wenzel reviews This Civilisation is Finished

Eastern Daily Press

It is government policy that has led to the dire situation we are now in

Green Words

Corporate money, the deformation of politics, and a values alternative

Green World

Opinion: A Green Brexit is possible
We must adapt to climate decline
The Amazon burns: will the world learn?
How cinema can change the world
Climate breakdown, civilisation breakdown?

IAI News

How to do the right thing in a pandemic
How to do the right thing in a pandemic
The Storm and the Butterfly

Idler

Smell The Roses
Smell The Roses

Left Foot Forward

Sorry, BBC: I will no longer debate climate-change deniers

Liberal Conspiracy

Leave our kids alone – the case for banning ads targeted at children

Limits2Growth

Briefing delivered to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Limits to Growth

LSE

Risky Business: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Dealing With Uncertainty, Systemic Risk, and Potential Catastrophe
How ecologism is the true heir of both socialism and conservatism

Medium

On behalf of environmentalists, I apologise for Michael Shellenberger
A precautionary case for making damn sure we are not Vitamin D deficient, in the era of coronavirus
A precautionary case for making damn sure we are not Vitamin D deficient, in the era of coronavirus:
“A National Scandal”: a timeline of the UK government’s response to the Coronavirus crisis
We must stop relying on predictions: How the coronavirus pandemic humbles us
If the UK escapes a full Covid catastrophe, the people, not the Government, should be thanked
If the UK escapes a full Covid catastrophe, the people, not the Government, should be thanked
Love in the time of Corona
Love in the time of Corona
What would a precautionary approach to the coronavirus look like?: A briefing
What would a precautionary approach to the coronavirus look like?
Time for a government of national unity — and for citizens assemblies!
Britain’s democratic structures are broken: Citizens Assemblies could fix them — and more.
How a movement of movements can win: Taking XR to the next level.
A memo to Extinction rebels: on the need for truth-telling and its possible needful consequences
The climate election?: The real meaning of this week’s vote, beyond Brexitmania
What is actually wrong with WTO rules?: Why they are significantly worse than the EU
The Lords standing up for environmental standards
A dream of now
After the IPCC report, #climatereality
What is grief?: A personal and philosophical answer
How to save the Precautionary Principle: Some thoughts for Lords and Ladies
How to save the Precautionary Principle: Some thoughts for Lords and Ladies
The Domain of the Dump: A Story of Stuff
Religion after the death of God?: the rise of pantheism and the return to the source
The ‘Progressive Alliance’ re-assessed, post-General-Election: a failed strategy
Gaia is dead: we have killed her, you and I: A reworking of Nietzsche’s ‘The Madman’
Why I had to tell my students that I fear for them

Mid-Day

One World Column

A burning issue: embodied emissions
Are we a consumerist society - or a 'producerist' society?
Our responsibility to the future: justice or love?
We told you so

Open Democracy

XR UK: Telling the truth through targeted disruption
One useful thing parliament could do NOW to protect us from a Trumpian trade deal
How whales and dolphins can teach us to be less stupid
How UKIP and the Tory right will defeat themselves
Greens - the UKIP of the left?
Guardians of Britain's future generations?
A new think-tank aims to bring green politics into the mainstream
The British should heed Free Libya’s call for a no fly zone
AV means you can stick to First Past the Post if you really want to!
Could a Green Norwich change local rule across the UK?
The philosophical and political implications of 'The Spirit Level'
Why Greens should get behind AV
Caroline Lucas does it for the Greens
Reflections from outside Parliament: The political class and the crises we face
"I'm not a racist, but..."
Beyond Copenhagen: what kind of bottom-up climate activism do we need?
The last refuge of prejudice
The real scandal in the hacked climate change e-mails controversy
The Bank of Britain – a proposal
Can East England clean up the UK?
An epochal change on our political culture
Caroline Lucas elected Green Party's first ever leader
Political history will be made at Green Party Conference
Davis 1st, Greens 2nd, Authoritarianism defeated
The real civil libertarian candidate stands up
This could be the moment the freedom debate turns

ResearchResearch

Fully automated luxury barbarism
Academics should take to the streets with Extinction Rebellion

Respublica

Climate science is to geo-engineering as genetics is to GM food

Reuters Breaking Views

Friends In Need

Shifting Grounds

We need an alternative to neo-liberalism
Progress: beyond the growth fetish

Talking Philosophy

The real reason why libertarians become climate-deniers

The Conversation

Iceland is mourning a dead glacier – how grieving over ecological destruction can help us face the climate crisis
School climate strikes: why adults no longer have the right to object to their children taking radical action
Extinction Rebellion: I’m an academic embracing direct action to stop climate change

The Ecologist

Activist engagement with the 'Davos set'
An open letter to David Wallace-Wells
Climate change and deep adaptation
An ecological philosophy of film
Extinction Rebellion beyond London
Ideas for a Radical Green Manifesto
General Election 2017: a Green realignment of British politics?
Alternative Brexit? Could this be the change the Greens have been waiting for?
Apollo-Earth: A Wake Up Call In Our Race against Time
Climate change is a white swan
Trump's coming ‘climate moment': and why we should be careful what we wish for...
The Rise of the Robot: Dispelling the myth
After Brexit and Trump: don't demonise; localise!
'Progressive Alliance' is now the only alternative to the Tories
We must localise the EU and curb corporate power - but does that mean in or out?
The Precautionary Principle: the basis of a post-GMO ethic
Why 'Effective Altruism' is ineffective: the case of refugees
BBC must give the Greens 2016 election broadcasts!
The Rights of Nature must be recognised in law
Peak stuff: the 'growth' party is over. So what next?
Philippines GMO ban is the Precautionary Principle in action
Death to 'austerity'. Long live sustainable abundance!
Corbyn is great - but the Greens are different!
A 'progressive pact' for a green and democratic future
MPs' GMO report is a scandalous cave-in to corporate demands
Let's build a post-growth economy that works for the 99%
Re-nationalise our railways!

The Guardian

Letter: There’s no extremism in Extinction Rebellion
I won’t go on the BBC if it supplies climate change deniers as ‘balance’
Constant growth can only make most of us poorer
Emergency talk

The Independent

Venice is sinking and the elite does nothing – is civil disobedience the only way to make governments listen on climate change?

The London Economic

Leaked documents show the UK is recklessly at risk of jumping into Trump’s arms
Leaked documents show the UK is recklessly at risk of jumping into Trump’s arms
No bailouts except ‘green’ bailouts
Another Brexit is possible
Climate change: Once we no longer deny it, then we just might have the will to try drastically to change course
A case for genuine hope in the face of climate disaster

The Oxford Philosopher

Economist-kings?

The Philosophers' Magazine

Precaution vs Promethean: The philosophical dividing line that will define 21st century politics
How to end our love affair with evidence

Thinking Film

An allegory of a ‘therapeutic’ reading of a film: of Melancholia

UEA

Are Some Risks Just Too Big To Take?

Youtube

Rupert Read on how to inoculate ourselves against future pandemics and climate breakdown
Where Now?: Climate Science and Activism - Alastair McIntosh and Rupert Read in Dialogue
Rupert Read meets Michael Gove to discuss the Precautionary Principle
The One Video to Watch on Climate, If You Have Just 3 Minutes
The Precautionary Principle