Leigh Phillips is a science journalist whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, MIT Technology Review, the New Statesman, and Jacobin, amongst other publications. 

He also covered European Union climate, energy and science policy out of Brussels for many years at the EUobserver, a daily newspaper covering the European institutions, and is author of two books, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-porn Addicts — a defense of growth, industry, progress and stuff (Zero Books, 2014) and People’s Republic of Walmart (Verso, 2019), a popular introduction to the economic calculation debate.