James Dyke
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If we’re serious about slashing carbon emissions, changing our cars and gas boilers is just the start
The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill offers our best hope of reaching net zero by 2050 → Read More
A meat-free Christmas can be just as enjoyable as one that is crammed full with turkey
But food and culture are tightly entwined and some habits are hard to change → Read More
David Attenborough's 'Extinction' is so relentless and powerful I'm going to teach it at university
It is both beautiful and ugly. Uplifting and crushing. It may serve as the capstone to his remarkable career. → Read More
We owe it to young people to take action on climate change
There is an ambitious new bill going through Parliament which commits the UK to rapid decarbonisation → Read More
Air pollution exposure has been linked to higher Covid-19 cases
The pandemic has given us an insight into how people suffer from pollution - now is the time to improve air quality and help people have healthier lives → Read More
We want a Green New Deal, not Boris Johnson's announcement of the same fossil fuelled growth
The Prime Minister promised a 'new deal' - but we can only create change and make society happier if we introduce environmentally friendly policies → Read More
You might long to queue for Zara or Primark
It can take 2,700 litres of water to make a single t-shirt and microfibres have been found in fish for sale at the supermarket → Read More
The climate crisis will affect the poor and minority groups worst- that’s why no rich nations are prioritising it
It’s easy to say black lives matter. It’s much harder to seriously address the inequalities that continue to devalue them → Read More
These are the troubling political calculations behind Dominic Cummings breaking lockdown rules – and Tories rushing to defend him
Why does the Dominic Cummings lockdown story matter? Because it gives us a rare glimpse into the UK government’s worldview – and it’s absolutely damning. → Read More
Putting Mike Pence in charge of the US coronavirus response is some kind of sick joke
So Vice President Mike Pence is heading up the US government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak. Is that some sort of sick joke? → Read More
No wonder David Attenborough is angry. Climate science has been telling us the same story for decades
To the surprise of no one who has any interest in climate change, scientific organisations around the world including the Met Office and Nasa, have announced that 2019 was the second warmest year ever recorded by humans. This topped out the 2010s as the warmest decade ever recorded by humans. → Read More
Australia is being burned alive by the climate crisis – so why is it still promoting fossil fuels?
The world of alternative facts is fast becoming an alternative reality. How else to explain the coverage of the bushfires emergency by broadsheet newspaper The Australian – one of the only major international titles that finds itself unable to link the devastation unfolding across the country with the breakdown in the climate that the burning of fossils fuels is ushering in. → Read More
This general election may be last role of the dice to avoid climate breakdown
The general election on 12th December is perhaps the most important since the Second World War. It will shape the UK for many decades to come, because it represents the last roll of the dice for humanity to avert climate breakdown. → Read More
My catalytic converter was stolen, and it made me think of the ecological cost of owning a car
The recent increase in thefts has been driven by the rise in the price of rhodium, palladium and platinum → Read More
This month millions will strike for climate justice- we will either make history, or through our inaction, end it
There will be no way back for humanity if it causes the climate system to crash out of the stable state it has enjoyed → Read More
Bolsonaro thinks ‘reforesting Europe’ can offset the damage he is doing to the Amazon. He is so very wrong
If the Amazon rainforest goes up in smoke, then we will all be cooked. Its two million square miles hold over a hundred billion tons of carbon. At a time when we urgently need to reduce carbon emissions, the current fires that are raging across the region are an international disaster and a source of increasing alarm. → Read More
Hiroshima victim’s message of hope aged 12 reminds me of Greta Thunberg’s climate-striking children
Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when Hiroshima was attacked and, years later, was omitted to hospital with leukaemia → Read More
The Whaley Bridge dam collapse is terrifying – but it will soon be dwarfed by far greater eco-disasters
The phrase “I’ve never seen anything like it before in my life” has been uttered a great deal in the north of England this week. In some places an entire month’s rain fell in four hours. Small streams that are usually a few inches deep were transformed into raging torrents. Extensive flooding has swept away bridges, submerged roads and homes. → Read More
Europe is burning just as new research offers a chilling truth about the volatility of climate change
It’s not the fall that will kill you, but the suddenness of the stopping. Just as it is with a plane crash, so it is with global heating. Changes in the climate don’t in themselves represent a significant risk – the Earth’s climate has been changing for billions of years after all – but it is the abrupt changes that could spell disaster for us. → Read More
The government’s progress on climate change is so bad it’s almost a waste of time measuring it
Today should mark a milestone in the UK’s rapid decarbonisation. Because today is the release of the Committee for Climate Change’s annual progress report in which it details how the UK government has been performing over the past year. With the recent commitment to get the UK to net-zero carbon by 2050 the stakes could not be higher. → Read More