Nafeez M Ahmed

Cambridge University Divests From Big Oil Years Too Late

After a five-year student- and faculty-led campaign, Cambridge says it'll cut ties with fossil fuel companies ... by 2030

Why are America’s progressive Arab movements supporting Trump?

Scamademics? Right-Wing Lobbying Groups Reviving ‘Herd Immunity’ in the UK

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how a high-profile letter to Boris Johnson was based on ‘fringe pseudoscience’ and co-drafted by a Government advisor who downplayed the COVID-19 death toll

British Military Prepares for Climate-Fueled Resource Shortages

The UK military expects 3.5 degrees of warming, and will weigh going to war simply to ensure its ability to go to war (by stabilizing access to critical resources)

Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions

Taxpayers and already struggling communities are largely bearing the brunt of the costs for climate change-fueled disasters created by big oil and big business

The End of the Oil Age Is Upon Us

A new report suggests that over the next 30 years, at least 80 percent of the oil industry will be wiped out

This is how we end deforestation to avert pandemic, climate and societal collapse

COVID-19 is an early warning signal for our breaching of planetary boundaries

Towards a great forest transition - part 2

A fundamental sea-change is required in the global approach to tackling deforestation, and it requires a new focus on engendering institutions of cooperation rather than competition

Towards a great forest transition - part 1

Industrial expansion has resulted in the loss of some 420 million hectares of forest overall since 1990, and the decrease of old-growth primary forest worldwide by over 80 million hectares

Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades

Deforestation and rampant resource use is likely to trigger the 'irreversible collapse' of human civilization unless we rapidly change course

'Green Economic Growth' Is a Myth

There are 'no realistic scenarios' to make the economic growth demanded by capitalism compatible with a safe climate, researchers who advised the United Nations found

SAGEGATE: Government Still Chasing ‘Long-Term Herd Immunity’ Through Recurrent Waves of COVID-19

Analysis of new documents from the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies shows that the quest for herd immunity, through several waves of the Coronavirus over a number of years, has not gone away

Green economic growth is an article of ‘faith’ devoid of scientific evidence

Crack team that advised UN Global Sustainable Development Report settle a longstanding debate with hard empirical data

SAGEGATE – Part Three: Cummings and Johnson Defied Scientific Advisors by Lifting Restrictions Without Robust Track and Trace

The third part of Nafeez Ahmed’s investigation shows how public health was sacrificed to ideology as the lockdown was eased

SAGEGATE – Part Two: How Herd Immunity was Imposed on Government’s Science Advisory Group On Dominic Cummings’ Watch

Nafeez Ahmed investigates how the adoption of the outlandish policy, which would have led to half a million deaths, coincided with the presence of Boris Johnson’s controversial chief advisor

SAGEGATE – Part One: Treasury and Downing Street Advisors Delayed COVID-19 Lockdown

Nafeez Ahmed reveals how outside pressure weighed on SAGE to prioritise ‘supply chains’, the ‘wider economy’, ‘workforce’ and ‘business’

SAGEGATE: How Government Neutered Science to Save the Economy and Chase the Ghost of Herd Immunity

After a comprehensive investigation into five months of SAGE documents, Nafeez Ahmed arrives at some shocking findings

Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists

Europe must prepare for life after oil

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to leave the fossil fuel era behind. Europe needs to begin preparing for what comes next.

White Supremacism and the Earth System

The protests, the pandemic, and the planet: from systemic decline to civilizational renewal

WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: THE AI SUPERSTATE Part Two – Is COVID-19 Fast-Tracking a Eugenics-Inspired Genomics Programme in the NHS?

Nafeez Ahmed explores the troubling implications and assumptions of the Government’s AI-driven gene programme

WHITEHALL ANALYTICA: THE AI SUPERSTATE Part One – The Corporate Money Behind Health Surveillance

The first part of Nafeez Ahmed’s major investigation into the money, men and motivation behind a massive move into medical data

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil

The Light at the End

The pandemic is remaking who we are. It is an opening to a new world where our capacity to love each other is integral to our survival.