2. Far from it: here’s the email she sent inviting me to take part. Nothing suggesting it would in any way be an attack on my position. There was lots of further correspondence, but none of it *even mentioned the topic of the film*: population growth. Had I known, I would have prepared.
December 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
2. Far from it: here’s the email she sent inviting me to take part. Nothing suggesting it would in any way be an attack on my position. There was lots of further correspondence, but none of it *even mentioned the topic of the film*: population growth. Had I known, I would have prepared.
B. infant mortality has declined very fast and longevity has risen very fast.
Again, there's nothing you can do about either of those things and, I hope, nothing you would want to.
3/13
Again, there's nothing you can do about either of those things and, I hope, nothing you would want to.
3/13
December 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
B. infant mortality has declined very fast and longevity has risen very fast.
Again, there's nothing you can do about either of those things and, I hope, nothing you would want to.
3/13
Again, there's nothing you can do about either of those things and, I hope, nothing you would want to.
3/13
The residual rise is due to: A. the birth rate 60-100 years ago, which created a larger current base population. This means more children being born even as birth *rates* are in radical decline.
The global total fertility rate, by the way, is now 2.2, just above the replacement rate of 2.1.
2/13
The global total fertility rate, by the way, is now 2.2, just above the replacement rate of 2.1.
2/13
December 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The residual rise is due to: A. the birth rate 60-100 years ago, which created a larger current base population. This means more children being born even as birth *rates* are in radical decline.
The global total fertility rate, by the way, is now 2.2, just above the replacement rate of 2.1.
2/13
The global total fertility rate, by the way, is now 2.2, just above the replacement rate of 2.1.
2/13
Here's a short trailer:
December 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Here's a short trailer:
8. Farming has to be profitable - or farmers won’t do it - and productive, or there won’t be enough for 8, 9 or 10 billion people to eat. But we also need to see much lower impacts on the living world, as food production is the #1 driver of most causes of environmental destruction.
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
8. Farming has to be profitable - or farmers won’t do it - and productive, or there won’t be enough for 8, 9 or 10 billion people to eat. But we also need to see much lower impacts on the living world, as food production is the #1 driver of most causes of environmental destruction.
Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
December 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Still growing, but much more slowly than before. Note the massive impact of Trump's re-election.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
Do keep dragging your friends out of the seventh circle of X and onto this platform.
On January 14, I'll be interviewing the extraordinary @rutgerbregman.com in London. Tickets will go fast, so get yours while you can. howtoacademy.com/events/rutge...
December 8, 2025 at 7:28 AM
On January 14, I'll be interviewing the extraordinary @rutgerbregman.com in London. Tickets will go fast, so get yours while you can. howtoacademy.com/events/rutge...
4. What it means is that, short of murdering a billion people or more, there is nothing anyone can do – or could have done in our lifetimes – to alter the broad trajectory. People have devoted their lives to fighting a mathematical function. 4/12
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
4. What it means is that, short of murdering a billion people or more, there is nothing anyone can do – or could have done in our lifetimes – to alter the broad trajectory. People have devoted their lives to fighting a mathematical function. 4/12
On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 AM
On the ferry, crossing the Firth of Clyde after a fantastic short break on Arran. We stayed in a brilliant vegan B&B - Stonewater House in Lamlash. Saw otters, red squirrels, eider, mergansers, many shore birds and woodland birds. A stunning place. share.google/AWcMAxYmL56h...
Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Tonight we're celebrating 10 years of Rewilding Britain (@rewildingbritain.org.uk). I don't think I've ever come across an organisation which has shifted both public attitudes and tangible outcomes on an issue so fast. I'm proud to be associated.
A giant hole, with a few ragged edges.
This is a map of the global data we possess on temperature-related deaths.
This is a map of the global data we possess on temperature-related deaths.
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
A giant hole, with a few ragged edges.
This is a map of the global data we possess on temperature-related deaths.
This is a map of the global data we possess on temperature-related deaths.
Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
November 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Here's my plea to the government, media and everyone else to stop treating NHS administrators as a problem to be eliminated, rather than the glue which holds the whole organisation together.
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
November 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
1. Placing these two graphs side by side shows why we have a prisons crisis. They can also be seen as a kind of Authoritarianism Index, showing the trend in state attitudes.
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
On the left is the Crime Survey for England and Wales.
On the right is the UK prison population.
🧵1/8
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.
They certainly caused annoyance!
October 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
They certainly caused annoyance!
Why is microbial protein not OK, while this, which it aims to replace, is?
October 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Why is microbial protein not OK, while this, which it aims to replace, is?
Behold. The "genetic master race".
October 8, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Behold. The "genetic master race".
Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?
I’ve just finished reading Sarah Hall’s new novel Helm. It is a truly astonishing thing, this book, so vivid that you keep wondering how she could have been witness to all those events, from the Neolithic onwards. Then you remember she made them up. But how? 🧵1/5
September 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I’ve just finished reading Sarah Hall’s new novel Helm. It is a truly astonishing thing, this book, so vivid that you keep wondering how she could have been witness to all those events, from the Neolithic onwards. Then you remember she made them up. But how? 🧵1/5
Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
September 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
Green Party comms could certainly do with some improvement ....
September 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Green Party comms could certainly do with some improvement ....
After the independent head of the US CDC is fired, Robert Kennedy Jr's loyal deputy, Jim O'Neill, is appointed to take her place.
August 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
After the independent head of the US CDC is fired, Robert Kennedy Jr's loyal deputy, Jim O'Neill, is appointed to take her place.
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
Hilariously, this is a classic misunderstanding of capacity factor. Perhaps he should take his own advice.
(As he's just blocked me, I'm reposting with screenshot)
(As he's just blocked me, I'm reposting with screenshot)
August 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Hilariously, this is a classic misunderstanding of capacity factor. Perhaps he should take his own advice.
(As he's just blocked me, I'm reposting with screenshot)
(As he's just blocked me, I'm reposting with screenshot)