Emma Armstrong

Emma is a naturalist and writer on the natural world, as well as the author of I Used to Think Vegans Were Dicks. She has previously written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Independent, The National, Metro.co.uk, Business Insider, The Contrapuntal Magazine, The Outdoors Adventure Guide, The Great Outdoors, TRAIL and Bushcraft and Survival Magazine.

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Social media’s swan song?

GR OnlineSocial media is now so bad that when parents sue TikTok for the role they believe it played in their children’s deaths, it feels terrifyingly quotidian. These platforms are ruining our health, the planet and our diplomatic processes.

Post-apocalyptic parenting

How does one balance raising children with a sense of wonder and innocence in a world that’s just waiting for them to get hot/legal/sign up to the heterodoxy? As their mother I reserve the right to irrevocably damage them. It’s my job to give them some good therapy fodder in case future them have any money to spare after buying future air and water.

John Williams makes me get something in my eye

GR OnlineWith just a few notes I can feel excited, thrilled, scared, sad, melancholy, soaringly happy and optimistic – I could go on. Frankly, I didn’t even know I came with those as factory settings, let alone being able to activate them with a few bars of music.

Captain Planet sucks

I hear the sceptics pointing out that we have now had six (yes, six) Terminator films warning us of the risks of evil, fighty robots – and yet here we are, merrily cracking on with more and more advanced AI.

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