The New Wilderness Diane Cook (Oneworld, 2020) The mythical distinction between a wild, savage nature and controlled, safe human civilization has done much harm. It has inhibited our understanding of how humans are ever-present in nature, with the ongoing power to preserve or destroy it. It has also been the…

MiStory Philip Temple (Font Publishing, 2014) New Zealand’s 2014 general election was one of the most bizarre in the country’s history. There was a sense of inevitability in the landslide victory for the National Party and incumbent Prime Minister John Key over the bland David Cunliffe leading the major opposition…

There are an enormous number of ideas out there about how to respond to the environmental crises facing the world. This is a personal journey for me, reading every major environmental book I can and reviewing them in order to come to some conclusions about what I think the best…

This is a personal journey. I am writing reviews of books on environmental ideas to develop my own thinking in response to them. Eradicating Ecocide, 2nd Edition Polly Higgins, Shepheard-Walwyn, 2015 In 2019, Amazon deforestation spiked. As at July, 7,200 square miles of rainforest had burned, and there had been…

There are an enormous number of ideas out there about how to respond to the environmental crises facing the world. This is a personal journey for me, reading every major environmental book I can and reviewing them in order to come to some conclusions about what I think the best…