Trump and Musk have launched a new class war

Jan 19, 2025 | Opinion, Politics & Human Rights

Why has the class war been unleashed now, not just in the US but in much of the world? Because the democratizing, distributive effects of two world wars have worn off. The default state of centralized societies, to which nations are now reverting, is oligarchy.

Richard Seymour on how far right exploits environmental crisis

Oct 30, 2024 | Books, Opinion

‘You can’t shoot climate change’: In his latest book, Disaster Nationalism, the Marxist thinker Richard Seymour explores how extremist movements around the world seek to blame fictional enemies for real disasters.

George Monbiot talks to his local conspiracy theorist

May 5, 2024 | Opinion

Covid vaccines, chemtrails, the Great Reset … Why do people invent false conspiracies when there are so many real ones to worry about? There’s only one way to find out: ask a believer.

Beware climate populism

Jan 25, 2024 | Opinion

The most ardent deniers of anthropogenic climate change today will become the climate conspiracy theorists of tomorrow.

We built the technosphere. Now we must resist it

Jan 16, 2024 | Opinion

Our brave new world of plastic, wire, and concrete promises liberation. Instead, its cult of efficiency controls and kills.

Hannah Ritchie: Not the end of the world

Jan 2, 2024 | Opinion

In an extract from her book Not the End of the World, data scientist Hannah Ritchie explains how her work taught her that there are more reasons for hope than despair about climate change – and why a truly sustainable world is in reach.