Today The Guardian reveals the onward march of the mega farms defined as warehouses – effectively accommodating more than 40,000 poultry birds, 2,000 pigs and 750 breeding sows. We now have almost 800 of these mega farms in the UK. In the same week Ahimsa, a...
There are now serious doubts that Sir Martin Moore-Bick, retired judge of the Court of Appeal in England, will be able to take up the role of Chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry. Residents say they have little faith in him; the local MP has called for...
Prof Bill McGuire writes: Grenfell Tower exposed one regulatory failure, but the government is ignoring other official advice to strengthen building regulations to protect homes, schools, hospitals & care homes from the heat of climate change, it's another...
As some call for colonisation of other worlds, and the government invests in space industries but fails the green economy, New Weather debates the dreams humanity has for its' future on the BBC and explores the issue in more detail...
See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution. In December 2015, pollution causing smogs in Delhi gave it the worst air quality of any city in the world. It was exactly 63 years since the ‘Great Smog’ of London, estimated...
FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
