"A post-Covid world must genuinely value care, embrace vulnerability, and attack existing structures of privilege."

Covid recovery and radical social change The view that radical societal change has been taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic has been expressed by progressive figures and organisations. For example, George Monbiot has recorded a series of solidarity, bottom-up community actions to... Read more theecologist.org

Nature

"We need to release the iron grip of heritage and romantic sentiment on the rural environment and begin to imagine how else it might look in the future.  Perhaps we need to rediscover that most unfashionable of mindsets: utopianism. Among the mostly tragic and catastrophic consequences of Covid 19 there is a glimpse of a more utopian vision of the Lake District, one in which the complex environment is given the chance to thrive. This is not William Morris’ vision of a utopia realised far in the future, in News From Nowhere. This is news from now, here."

Reimagining the Lake District It's time to imagine a more resilient future for the Lake District and all its communities, a future in which wild nature and thriving biodiversity is central. Read more theecologist.org

Deforestation

Towards a great forest transition - part 1 Industrial expansion has resulted in the loss of some 420 million hectares of forest overall since 1990, and the decrease of old-growth primary forest worldwide by over 80 million hectares. Read more theecologist.org

Towards a great forest transition - part 2 A fundamental sea-change is required in the global approach to tackling deforestation, and it requires a new focus on engendering institutions of cooperation rather than competition. Read more theecologist.org

The view from the Amazon The story of deforestation is also the story of the globalisation. Read more theecologist.org

Culture

Museums and a greener future Museums have a responsibility to speak out about the climate and ecological emergency. Read more theecologist.org

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Covid Impacts

Iraq on the brink Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in October 2019 for what was arguably our country's biggest ever grassroots socio-political mobilisation. The protests were borne of years of frustration and despair:at rising poverty and... Read more theecologist.org

Covid and climate disasters in South Asia Response measures have forced coastal communities in South Asia to choose between a super cyclonic storm or shelters with no physical distancing. Read more theecologist.org

Deep Adaptation

Is Deep Adaptation flawed science? Jem Bendell's popular self-published paper has been platformed by Extinction Rebellion, but relies on pseudoscience to come to inaccurate and harmful conclusions. Read more theecologist.org

Is Deep Adaptation good science? 'Deep Adaptation is not just a paper, but a living body of research and social enquiry.' Read more theecologist.org

Economy

Labouring for the green economy Can we find emancipation and construct a sustainable economy through the labour process? Read more theecologist.org

Activism

Protestors' guerrilla tactics hinder HS2 Activists have taken to the trees to halt HS2 construction that threatens to fell tracts of north-London nature reserve. Read more theecologist.org

Climate Action network grows to 200 groups The antidote to being powerless alone is taking action together. Read more theecologist.org

Science

Which will tip first - us or the planet? We may be on the verge of a massive, non-linear social transformation to a decarbonised economy. The question is which will tip first - us or the planet? Read more theecologist.org

Met Office chief: time for action is now Professor Penny Endersby, the chief executive of the Met Office, talks to The Ecologist about Earth system modelling in a time of worsening climate extremes - and how the time for urgent action is now. Nick Breeze (NB): We regularly hear climate... Read more theecologist.org

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