Dark Thoughts

In this penetrating essay, artist and lecturer Mat Osmond, looks at how the disruption of activism challenges a fossil-fuelled ecocidal civilisaton and asks: what is the true role of education when generations are being betrayed by the sleepwalking culture that fosters them?

Today activist and writer Andrew Boyd introduces his new book, 'I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor', which is published this month.

Today Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine introduces his new book, 'At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies, which he begins to tour in the UK this month.

In the wake of COP27, James Roberts drives a scenic route down the Elan Valley in Wales into a poisoned landscape that holds the untold stories of a people who once toiled there.

In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.

'How do we change a system we are implicated in'? This week's post explores how we might engage with the complexity of the task, in an extract from Anthea Lawson's 'The Entangled Activist'.

A year since the start of the protests in Portland, following the murder of George Floyd, Edith Mirante writes of riots, wolves and elk.

Writer Christopher Records explores the rift between the idea and the reality of Earth in California during times of pandemic and forest fire.

Dawid Juraszek stands on the banks of the Bosphorus and reflects on the modern drive to keep moving at all cost.