Don’t listen to the climate doomists
The “end times” narrative only benefits fossil fuel interests.
ByClimate crisis
Climate crisis describes the heightened urgency of global warming and climate change and the impact they are having on the world. Drought, wildfires and habitat loss are becoming increasingly common; scientists and campaigners say only radical action can avert the worst effects. Read all of the New Statesman’s expert coverage on the climate crisis here.
A creed for the anthropocene
Staving off climate change will entail not only a technological revolution but transforming our relations with the natural world.
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How Britain can prevent drought
From beavers to water butts, the UK needs to drastically rethink how it protects its most precious resource.
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How are animals adapting to climate change?
Books by Thor Hanson and Emma Marris offer fascinating insights into how species are surviving and what we must do…
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Sunak and Truss are wrong, Tory members want climate action
The leadership candidates have let their voters down by failing to take global warming seriously.
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Adrienne Buller: “Green capitalism is its own form of denial”
The Canadian author discusses her new book The Value of a Whale and why markets won’t save the world.
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Big Oil v the World: an unmissable series about climate change and corruption
This is the kind of journalism that has you lying wide awake at 3am, your thoughts doom-spiralling like a fairground…
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Deregulation will worsen the climate crisis – and Boris Johnson knows it
Johnson’s urging of his successor to scrap rules protecting the planet in his last PMQs was irresponsible and immature.
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As the Tory leadership candidates obsess over tax cuts, the real monsters are tapping at the window
The climate emergency can no longer be dismissed by politicians – even if some voters don’t regard it as a…
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Leader: A planet on fire
The national and international political response to the climate crisis is both tragic and farcical.
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As the heatwave rages, Tory candidates are spineless on climate change
They talk about the costs of tackling climate change – what about the costs of leaving it unchecked?
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Are extreme heatwaves the new normal?
Temperatures in parts of the UK could reach 40°C this week.
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In a drying world can humans learn to adapt?
From Alaska to Texas and Delhi to Nottinghamshire, heatwaves and drought caused by climate change are transforming the way we…
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How “nudge theory” can prompt pro-environmental behaviour
Climate change is one of the public’s biggest concerns but NS polling shows that achieving behavioural change is no easy…
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Esther Duflo: “Climate change is a problem from hell politically”
The Nobel Prize-winning economist on how equality can save the planet.
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Remaking the Anthropocene
Why our need for utopian thinking old and new, from Thomas More to Kim Stanley Robinson, has never been greater.
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Utopia in the age of climate crisis
Half-Earth Socialism proposes democratic planning to navigate environmental catastrophe, but leaves vital questions unanswered.
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Drought pulls Europe’s farmers to the front line of a drying world
Heatwaves and low rainfall are forcing farmers in rich nations to use methods usually suggested to those in East Africa.
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“Engineers build the fabric of society. We need them in government”
The leading engineer Jo da Silva says we need leaders to take on greener city planning and inspiring national climate…
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A history of nuclear catastrophe
Seen by many as a route to net zero, nuclear power is haunted by its past disasters.
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