Dark Mountain

Q & A: Paul Kingsnorth, green activism is 'simply a faction of consumer society'

Mark Newton

| 21st September 2011

Writer, journalist and environmental activist: Paul Kingsnorth has been them all. Now, however, he has rejected activism in favour of a dystopian strain of thought epitomised by his Dark Mountain project. Mark Newton caught up with him to discover why
Dark Mountain Issue 2

Mark Newton

| 25th August 2011

The dystopian take on the environmental movement provided by Dark Mountain’s second anthology, is a wonderful, if disturbing, read says Mark Newton
Get down off your Dark Mountain: you're making matters worse

Solitaire Townsend

| 3rd June 2010

Drawing people's attention to the enormous challenges we face is one thing; revelling in the collapse of society is quite another. Dark Mountain could learn from Douglas Adams, says Solitaire Townsend...

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