Author: george

Atro-city

As Sydney residents are being paid to leave the city, the case for compact, high-density settlement becomes clearer than ever.

Peak Stupidity

Why was the Labour government telling two different stories about peak oil?

Naming the Genocide Deniers

The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse.

Underground Movement

The public reaction to new power lines could kill renewable energy: they must be buried.

Turning Together

I challenge Jonathon Porritt to explain his contention that nuclear power and renewables are incompatible.

Pass the Parcel

How will the UK achieve a 50% carbon cut by 2027? By getting someone else to make our stuff.

A Death Foretold

Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems?

For How Much Longer Can This Go On?

Christopher Booker is now in even deeper trouble than before: damned in a High Court judgement. Yet still the Sunday Telegraph employs him.

Shaking the Tree

The British government’s demolition programme is now moving on to the environment.

The Lost World

Where is the environmental vision that can resist the planet-wrecking project?

Why This Matters

We have to be sure our facts about nuclear power are right, as the latest exchange with Helen Caldicott shows.