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Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth is an environmentalist and poet who writes for publications worldwide. He co-edits the Dark Mountain collections and is the author of Real England: the Battle against the Bland

March 2017

  • Green shoots

    The lie of the land: does environmentalism have a future in the age of Trump?

    Will Trump’s presidency spell disaster for the climate, or can the green movement seize back the debate?

July 2016

  • Mountains Membegan West Papua

    Paul Kingsnorth: 'We imagine how it feels to be a character, why can't we imagine how the land feels?'

    Climate change and mass extinctions suggest that we have been telling the wrong stories. Writers need to reconnect with the natural world

March 2015

  • Rob Pybus illustration for England's uncertain future

    England’s uncertain future

    Rescuing the English – what will become of England now that imperial Britishness has departed and global capitalism is eating the nation’s soul? Will it be discussed at all during the general election? It is time to retell the country’s story involving everyone, argues Paul Kingsnorth. And it’s time for the left to rediscover ‘Little England’

December 2012

  • Norman conquest and the Battle of Hastings

    High house prices? Inequality? I blame the Normans

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: William the Conquerer's descendants are still doing well out of a land grab that created the unequal England we know today

August 2012

  • Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site near Seascale in Cumbria, England

    The new environmentalism: where men must act 'as gods' to save the planet

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: For the neogreens, science and business will provide while nature can adapt. It is a messsage gaining traction

January 2012

  • Eype, West Dorset

    William Barnes – England's Rabbie Burns

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: As Scotland celebrates Rabbie Burns we should remember England's own poet with a cause

September 2011

  • krauze

    This economic collapse is a 'crisis of bigness'

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: Leopold Kohr warned 50 years ago that the gigantist global system would grow until it imploded. We should have listened

April 2011

  • Austerity is for the English

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: The cuts will hit England hardest. Why doesn't it have its own parliament like the rest of Britain?

May 2010

  • Cif green
    The environmental movement needs to stop pretending

    Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine
    Response: We can harp on about alternative energy but it's our lifestyles that need to change, say Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine

April 2010

  • english bowler hats

    General election 2010: Cif at the polls
    'England' is the unheard word in this election campaign

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: This is a good day for the English to claim independence from their imperial masters

February 2010

  • England is a pseudo-democracy

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: While devolution was laudable, unaccountable MPs from other UK nations are still making English laws. This must change

November 2009

  • Cif green
    A climate deal is like trying to halt the rains in Cumbria

    Paul Kingsnorth
    Paul Kingsnorth: Copenhagen won't alter the ecological reality. There is no quick fix or sustainable growth, only painful decline ahead

August 2009

  • Cif green
    Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?

    Paul Kingsnorth and George Monbiot

    The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot – we can't let billions perish

July 2009

  • Cif green
    A windfarm is not the answer

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: The green movement's fixation with technology reveals that we are asking the wrong questions

April 2009

  • Forget St George. It's time to celebrate Wat Tyler's Day

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: Levellers and Diggers have been replaced by binge drinkers. Has the glorious flame of English radicalism gone out?

March 2009

  • liberty central
    England: nothing to be scared of

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: The Convention on Modern Liberty: Prejudice and misinformation lie at the heart of the political left's perceived problems with the idea of an English parliament

February 2009

September 2008

  • Cif green
    Kingsnorth on Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: Sharing my name with a power station is no source of pride now the link between coal and climate change is clearer than ever

August 2008

  • The progressive case for England

    Paul Kingsnorth

    Paul Kingsnorth: Support for an English parliament is growing, and not just among rightwing loons: it's time the left saw the benefits, too

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