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John Gibbons: Truly dangerous radicals are the climate ‘inactivists’ who ignore the world burning

It beggars belief that those protesting to avert the environmental horror we face are being depicted as ‘extremists’ by those whose privilege has blinded them to our common peril

John Gibbons: A thin line between climate fear and despair, and then doomism

If we start to believe that it’s too late to do anything about the climate crisis, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy

Book review: Wild Embrace is a wake-up call for the need to reconnect with the natural world

Anja Murray’s anguish at the relentless assaults on our environment is palpable and to her, the magic of wild places is both intimate and personal

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John Gibbons: How the 15-minute city found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theorists

Opposition to this most benign of notions is being whipped up by those who are likening it to a Marxist attack on individual freedoms

John Gibbons: Is it any wonder graduates are turning their backs on the fossil fuel industry?

In the US, the number of business school graduates choosing careers in oil or gas has fallen by over 40 per cent in the last 15 years and the pipeline of new talent is rapidly drying up

The Deluge: Complex chronicle of climate breakdown peppered with black humour and humanity

At close to 900 pages,

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John Gibbons: Climate refugees present bigger crisis than populations displaced by war

While those fleeing conflict enjoy clear legal protections, the same does not apply to the ever-increasing number of those escaping climate breakdown

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John Gibbons: The heat is on, but our response to climate change remains muted

The year saw heat waves precipitously close to the limits of human tolerance and calamitous flooding, yet political and social reaction continues to be lukewarm

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John Gibbons: The EU’s new plan to tackle deforestation will only work with close monitoring

Companies found to be in breach of new rules will face fines of up to 4 per cent of their annual turnover in the bloc, but opaque supply chains could hinder its effectiveness

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John Gibbons: We’ve got to change our choice of food to feed our growing population

Half of all the habitable land on Earth is now used to feed our vast livestock herds, and for crop production for direct human consumption, with profound impacts on the biosphere

The Climate Book: High-profile contributors give the ‘biggest story in the world’ real clout

Greta Thunberg’s comprehensive handbook on the climate emergency is fresh, persuasive and shocking

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John Gibbons: Could insurers be the ones to make fossil fuel giants listen on climate risk?

The insurance sector, dubbed the Achilles heel of the fossil fuel industry, is in crisis due to the increasing frequency of climate-fuelled extreme weather events – something energy giants may no longer be able to ignore

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John Gibbons: Empty carbon offsetting promises mean it’s business as usual for the polluters

Far from leading to tangible reductions in overall carbon pollution globally, for many, the practice increasingly looks like a PR initiative which does little to protect the planet

An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: How a deer fence turned an overgrazed landscape into a rugged idyll

After buying a small farm on the Beara Penisula, Eoghan Daltun watched as the overgrazed, monotone woodland gave way to a riot of diversity

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Ireland feels the heat, but our politicians are behaving like slow learners

Irish politicians appear not to have fully accepted the dangers of climate change and seem happy to pay lip service to the vague ‘net zero by 2050’ – political-speak for ‘not our problem'

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Nobody wants permanent austerity, but the alternative is catastrophe

We are in an abusive relationship with capitalism, but it seems we are not willing to change a system that nurtures and threatens us

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John Gibbons: The meek will inherit a ruined, dangerous, inhospitable earth

When today’s children look back at our lack of effort to stave off the looming climate disaster, they’ll wonder at how docilely we accepted our fate, and theirs

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John Gibbons: Masks are off, exposing economist Pollyannas leading the world off a climate cliff

Complacent and misinformed his FT presentation may have been, but HSBC bigwig Stuart Kirk did us all a favour by exposing the financial sector’s charade of talking ‘net zero by 2050’

John Gibbons: Clean, safe, always on – why nuclear power demands a rethink

Nuclear power has long been wrongly conflated with nuclear annihilation and the Cold War but in fact nuclear plants have caused fewer than 50 fatalities ever

John Gibbons: As the smoke clears from the turf controversy, the betrayal on climate action becomes clearer

The yellow streak running through so much of our political culture as it refuses to engage with the existential climate crisis is a stain on our national discourse