The government has torpedoed its promised community energy revolution – to the benefit of big business. Read more.
Category: climate change
Produce More, Consume Less
How our governments’ crashing contradictions destroy their climate policies. Read more.
Better Dead Than Different
Our visions of the future are defined, like the film Interstellar, by technological optimism and political defeatism Read more.
Political Straightjacket
If the ozone hole had been discovered ten years later, governments are likely to have done nothing. Read more.
Eat Meat and Save the World?
Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock numbers can reduce desertification and reverse climate change – but where is the scientific evidence? Read more.
A Legal Duty to Maximise Greenhouse Gases
Buried in the Infrastructure Bill is an astonishing and hitherto-unnoticed contradiction. Read more.
Loss Adjustment
When people say we should adapt to climate change, do they have any idea what that means? Read more.
The Biogas Disaster
How the perverse consequences of a great idea are destroying the natural world. Read more.
Breach of Trust
Ill-informed and incoherent: the head of the National Trust talks nonsense on fracking. Read more.
Fiscal Meltdown
The government is betting the farm on a nuclear technology that might soon look as hip as the traction engine. Read more.
Climate Breakdown
How governments bemoan the problem but keep stoking the fires. Read more.
Parliament of Fools
The US disease has arrived in Britain: representatives waging an all-out war against science. Read more.
Abbottalypse Now
Tony Abbott intends to trash Australia on behalf of the super-rich. Read more.
Backwards Reasoning
Could fracking prevent climate change denial? Read more.
Pistols at Dawn
A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won? Read more.
Via Dolorosa
Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. Read more.
The Great Unmentionable
We have offshored both our consumption and our perceptions Read more.
Frozen Assets
Why are we exploiting unconventional gas when we can’t afford to burn existing supplies? Read more.
New Weather, New Politics
The extremes now hammering Australia leave old perspectives stranded. Read more.
Forbidden Planet
We cannot restrain climate change without a political fight against plutocracy. Read more.