77 months and counting … | Andrew Simms

To avert climate change we need to engage the ambitious impulse that has been brilliantly co-opted by the sellers of disposable consumer goods

"If you want to build a ship, don't call together some men just to gather wood, prepare tools and distribute tasks," proclaimed the French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Instead, teach them the longing for the endless sea."

The evidence of the recent budget, in which the environment was like a salad leaf abandoned to wilt in the June sun, suggests...