Flourish by Antonia Case selling out fast
After just a week, Flourish by Antonia Case has sold out at some locations in Australia and in some online stores but Bloomsbury is in the…
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New Philosopher celebrates 10 years
We're thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of New Philosopher. Back in 2013, we launched the magazine at the Byron Writers Festival - at the time,…
NP Writers’ Award
The New Philosopher Writers' Award is open for submissions (note that you must be a subscriber to New Philosopher or Womankind magazine to enter, you can…
Climate: editor’s letter
As we kicked off 2020, we industrious humans of the Anthropocene had successfully completed a run of the five hottest years on record. And nothing was…
Scientific consensus
The following 198 scientific organisations hold the position that climate change has been caused by human action: Academia Chilena de Ciencias, Chile Academia das Ciencias de…
News from nowhere
“The only plots against us are within our own walls,—the danger is within,—the enemy is within. We must war with luxury, with madness, with wickedness.” –Cicero…
A century of climate change
In 1896 Svante Arrhenius built a CO2 climate model; 99 years later the IPCC noted that CO2 remained the most important contributor to climate change. …
Apocaloptimism
“The decade that just ended is clearly the warmest decade on record. Every decade since the 1960s clearly has been warmer than the one before.” Gavin…
The Dancer
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein Author/illustrator: Corey Mohler, Existential…
The burnt country
When friends asked me why I left my job as a reporter in Beijing to move to Sydney, I would always point upwards. “The sky,” I’d say.…
Breaking the world
Accepting the natural world is breakable took us centuries. Accepting we ourselves could break it took even longer. Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States,…
The pale orange dot
Look up and you see the colour that defines our world. At least, our world today. It’s a blue that blankets us from birth to death.…
13 views on climate change
#1, 2009: Statement on Climate Change from 18 Scientific Associations “Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research…
Our ultimate fragility
Zan Boag: You’re dealing on such a grand scale here that’s there’s almost no limit to the size of the project you could potentially undertake. Is…
Seasons in the sun
“O! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter’s flaw!” Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1, by William…
Client Earth
ClientEarth is an environmental law charity that you founded 12 years ago, now with offices in London, Brussels, Warsaw, Berlin, and Beijing. On the website, it…
Our place in the world
“How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew what was happening to the world and did nothing?” – David Attenborough A…
Scenario 3
“It’s real ... And the great irony and tragedy of our time, is a lot of the general public thinks scientists are still arguing.” – James…
