Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at odds with the government’s line, the UK’s environment minister Michael Meacher is, by his own reckoning, a lone voice in the wilderness.
Sink or Swim The Ecologist | 20th March 2001 News Michael Meacher Environment Minister UK Politic Nuclear Biotechnology UK Climate Change investigates.jpg Opinionated and outspoken, often wildly at …
‘Immortal’ and created solely to amass ever larger amounts of wealth, limited-liability corporations institutionalise dissatisfaction. They are, Derrick Jensen writes, the economic manifestation of the Buddhist notion of ‘hungry ghosts’ – spirits that roam the earth, always eating, never sated.
Corporate power wielded through limited liability status Derrick Jensen | 20th March 2001 News Limited Liability Corporations Corporation Corpo Human Rights Violations Companies Politics And …
Ever since the 1970s we have lived with the growing awareness that our ecosystem is fragile and the perpetual exploitation of our natural resources impossible. By the late 1980s, even The Sun newspaper had its own green correspondent. Everything we buy, use and throw away has an impact somewhere on the ecological continuum, and nowadays the most bullish Western consumers’ consciences are regularly punctured by shards of eco-worry. We also increasingly realise that working ever harder for more possessions, more options, more stuff, doesn’t tend to make us more content.
… which is why so many of us call our cars ‘she’. A report in the Journal of …