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Carbon offsetting is not warding off environmental collapse – it’s accelerating it

Another good article in The Guardian from George Monbiot. Wealthy companies are using the facade of ‘nature-based solutions’ to…

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The Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022: 5th-7th January

The Oxford Real Farming Conference is always a very interesting event. This year’s conference starts today- here is a link…

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Revisiting Crisis by Design: Corporate concentration in agriculture

This piece dates from last year and is about the United States, but has very useful background information in it.…

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The UK government’s Net Zero Strategy just does not add up

From the People and Nature blog. The UK government claims, extravagantly, that it is aiming for “net zero”. But the…

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New research shows 50 year binge on chemical fertilisers must end to address the climate crisis

From the Institute For Agriculture And Food Policy The rising costs of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilisers, triggered by a spike…

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Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

This article from The Economist gives really useful information about the relative emissions from various forms of animal and plant…

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Top 5 Meat and Dairy Companies Match Exxon in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

From Ecowatch: The world’s five biggest meat and dairy companies emit the same volume of greenhouse gases as fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil. That’s just one of…

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Biodiversity in the Age of Extinction

Alan Thornett discusses the urgent need for the left to take up the issue of biodiversity. Most on the left…

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A touch of John le Carré

Alan Thornett reviews Spike: The Virus vs the People, by Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust and Anjana Ahuja formerly…

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Animal Rebellion- fighting for the animals, people and the planet

Rob Marsden reflects on the Animal Rebellion movement. Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending the Vegan Camp-Out– an…