Posts by Jonathan Whittaker

…And what a moment in the planet’s future as one that supports life. Donald Trump has described climate change as the greatest con ever. He has declared that he will pull America out of all climate change agreements and drill, drill, drill for gold. Is this, then, the critical tipping point of no return? Are…

On Sunday 3rd November I, along with many thousands more, attended the ‘March for Clean Water’ in London and it was clear that significant numbers of the population of these two countries, England and Wales, felt the urgent need to travel to make some noise for clean water in this country, the UK, one of…

The United Nations now warns that we are on course for a catastrophic 3.1-degree Celsius rise in average global temperature this century. Why are we so complacent? Disaster seems a long way off; we can’t see the CO2 build-up and fossil fuels give us a comfortable existence. So how do we save ourselves and our…

The Climate and Nature Bill now has a presenter at the UK Parliament announced. Dr Roz Savage MBE who is MP for South Cotswolds is an excellent choice since she has passionately championed environmental matters for 20 years now. She will be an excellent ambassador for the cause of preserving nature and for an effective…

The 2024 Living Planet Report is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 73% in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.

The health of our world is failing. WWF’s latest Living Planet Report shows a shocking 73% decline in wildlife population sizes, on average, since 1970. Thousands of people and communities are already working tirelessly around the world to protect and restore nature, but the only cure is for our leaders to take real action, now.…

Rebellions in history are for the most part, usually put down. So few of them are successful. What humanity needs right now is not a rebellion, but a quiet, peaceful, all pervading Environmental Revolution and that will only happen by everyone understanding how we are going to get out of this mess we have allowed…

Our last minute, last chance, minute plant saviour, duckweed. As humanity we have created the present climate emergency. Duckweed is life on Earth’s saving lifeform for us and ironically it needs our help do its job! Only we can create the extra Earth surfaces it needs to perform its miracle reversal of the damage we…

This was started at the ‘Restore Nature Now’ march in central London on 22nd June 2024. It is a very different form of petition. Unlike a normal petition where there is one statement and lots of people sign it who agree with that statement, this is lots of statements written directly by individuals about why…

A big thank-you to all whom have written personal statements about what is important to them about saving nature on the ’Shroud of Nature’ started at the Restore Nature Now rally in London on June 22nd. A shroud is a protective cloth or a burial garment. Important decisions lay ahead in the UK Parliament about…