British farmers want a universal basic income
British farmers want basic income to cope with post-Brexit struggles Schemes to replace EU subsidies will not plug gap left by loss of EU subsidies
Agriculture is killing the planet
This is a revised version of chapter 16 of my book Facing the Apocalypse–Arguments for Ecosocialism, published in 2019, which might be useful today in
Review of George Monbiot’s recent book ‘Regenesis – Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet’, 2022 by Allen Lane.
This excellent book is a no-holds-barred – and often provocative – critique of the global food and farming system. Agriculture, Monbiot tells us is: “the
The IPCC WG3 Report: It’s ‘now or never’ for the planet
Alan Thornett argues that life on planet Earth is facing a perfect storm. The precarious agreement from COP26 in Glasgow – which was barely enough
Exponential growth on a finite planet
This article is written up from the rough notes I submitted as background for my introduction at the ACRs Critical University on the environmental crisis
Farming, Food and Nature
Alan Thornett reviews Farming, Food and Nature: Respecting Animals, People and the Environment, edited by Joyce D’Silva and Carol McKenna and published by Routledge in 2018.
Dead Zone: Where the Wild things were
Alan Thornett reviews Philip Lymbery’s important book ‘Dead Zone: Where the Wild things were’ published by Bloomsbury in 2017. Bloomsbury Publishers, who published Elizabeth Kolbert’s