The Ecologist

Most farmers or even students of farming have probably never heard of the magazine known at The Ecologist and yet it is a magazine whose messaging is tightly connected to how nature is managed and, in that sense, should be front and centre of farming. The Institute places its emphasis on ecology and hence the term ecological in our name. Ecosystems are the essential element in successful farming farming today and one that farming has dismissed or simply overlooked . Here is a brief overview of their role and the issues that they see as important.

The Ecologist has served the environment movement for more than 50 years. The publication has been warning since 1970 that
our industrial civilisation is causing immense damage to the biosphere and that this would have devastating impacts. The fact that as many as 50 million people have been displaced by flooding in Pakistan in September 2022, and that a nuclear power plant is now at the centre of a warzone, while the Amazon rainforest has stopped being a sink for carbon emissions, demonstrate that such warnings were well founded. But we take no consolation from being proved right. The work of ending the destruction of the environment and the exploitation of billions of human beings remains undone. The Ecologist has a small but important role to play. This strategy will focus our resources on developing a clear and accessible analysis
of the fossil fuel economy as the main driver of ecological collapse. We will create educational materials about the economic, social and environmental transformation that is now urgently required. The Ecologist will publish news, analysis and theory that will support activists, campaigners and academics on the frontline. In doing so, we will support the work of recruiting more people to the movement and ensuring that our work is as strategic and as impactful as is humanly possible. The Ecologist has a small, dedicated team. With the support of trusts and foundations, and with further crowdfunding from our readers and supporters, we can double our capacity and greatly enhance this work.

If you are interested in the thinking to emerge from the Ecologist go to the following link: