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The Politicisation of Farmers

George Monbiot laments the apparent politicisation of farmers by right wing groups

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/28/wales-farming-environment-sunak-protest

1st March 2024

Act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost

George Monbiot wards of the coming crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/flickering-earth-systems-warning-act-now-rishi-sunak-north-sea

31st October 2023

Reduce Light Pollution and reduce the decline in insect populations

Practical tips from Dark Skies International

https://darksky.org/resources/what-is-light-pollution/light-pollution-solutions/

12th September 2023

Why is your money funding Earth’s destruction?

George Monbiot challenges continual government support for farmers, fossil fuel extractors and fishermen

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/amazon-public-money-earth-destruction-fossil-fuels-subsidies

20th Nov 2022

Lab-grown meat goes on sale for the first time

One requirement for reaching zero emissions is that we have to reduce our meat consumption from killing animals. This offers a way forward

2nd Dec 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/no-kill-lab-grown-meat-to-go-on-sale-for-first-time

The Poor state of nature in Britain

Out of 218 nations, the UK ranks 189th for the intactness of its living systems

25th September 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/25/rewilding-britains-rainforest-planting-trees

The threat  to sea life

How industrial scale fishing is trashing our oceans

9th May 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/seas-stop-eating-fish-fishing-industry-government

Nature’s dangerous decline

We are destroying Earth’s ecosystems at an alarming rate

7th May 2019

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/05/nature-decline-unprecedented-report

Ecocide

The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be punished

ttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/destruction-earth-crime-polly-higgins-ecocide-george-monbiot

28 March 2019

This farmer has abandoned his plough to save Earth’s soil

The growing movement of conservation agriculture

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/24/farmers-save-earths-soil-conservation-agriculture

24 April 2019

Growing threat to food from decline in biodiversity

The plants, animals and micro-organisms that are the bedrock of food production are in decline

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47308235

22nd February 2019

Plummeting insect numbers threaten the collapse of nature

Insects could vanish in a century

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

10th February 2016

Politicians have failed to grasp the gravity of the environmental crisis

Human impacts threaten to destabilise society

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47203344

12th February 2019

Medieval methods bring rare wild life back to Wales

How it is possible to farm and preserve biodiversity

https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-guardian/20180830/281578061531517

30th August 2018

Plastic food pots and trays are often unrecyclable, say councils

The scandal of unrecyclable plastics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45058971

4th August 2018

Deforestation

A football pitch of forest is lost every second

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2018/jun/27/one-football-pitch-of-forest-lost-every-second-in-2017-data-reveals

28 June 2018

Where have all our insects gone?

As we convert nature to arable land our ladybirds, moths, bees, butterflies and beetles are disappearing

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/where-have-insects-gone-climate-change-population-decline

17 June 2018

How we eliminated most other living things

96% of the biomass of all living mammals is accounted for by humans and their domesticated animals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study

22 May 2018

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem

Explains the dangers of plastic waste

10 Dec 2017

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42264788