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Towards a post-ideological Scotland 29 Jul 2013 | 01:52 am
As a party political agnostic it’s often difficult to get under the skin of those who align themselves with a single, often narrow world view. But ideology seems to be a hard-wired human trait, as evi...
Geoengineering: Beyond planetary boundaries 28 Jun 2013 | 03:04 pm
It’s no coincidence that industrial civilization has flourished during a time when the climate has been in a relatively benign and temperate state. Compared to the natural climate calamities of the pa...
Bursting the Carbon Bubble 22 May 2013 | 12:32 pm
There’s a new meme running wild on the internet that goes something like this. The world’s energy majors are valued by the market on the basis that coal, oil and gas reserves can be turned into real ...
All hail the rise of the robots 14 Feb 2013 | 01:13 am
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false I became acutely aware of the droid takeover whist travelling through Schiphol airport. Like many regular flyers, I witnessed long ago the substituti...
Misanthropic, elderly, rich white male takes an interest in the fecundity of poor, young African women 29 Jan 2013 | 02:21 pm
The casual misanthropy of the darker corners of Green thinking has been on display again in the broadsheets, with broadcaster Sir David Attenborough’s off-hand comment that humanity is “a plague on th...
Answer to the crushing poverty of subsistence farming is not more subsistence farming 26 Jan 2013 | 02:15 pm
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false The Enough Food (IF) campaign rightly highlights the impact of the crushing poverty caused by small-scale subsistence farming in the developing world...
Energy and Environment: News from the State of Euphoria 11 Dec 2012 | 02:17 am
Let’s play a game. The rules are simple. Imagine you’re the Minister of State with responsibility for Energy in a small country on the northern fringes of Europe. With apologies to David Lodge, we’ll...
Are fossil fuels subsidised more than renewables? 4 Dec 2012 | 06:05 pm
The International Energy Agency made the news with the headline claim that fossil fuels attract six times the subsidy of renewable energy. Inevitably, the headline was picked up and repackaged by most...
Energy targets, biscuits and Mao Zedong 29 Nov 2012 | 03:58 pm
When Mao Zedong set national targets for steel production during the Great Leap Forward in late 1950s China, the end result was a massive misallocation of labour and resources, inefficient steel produ...
Fear the boom and bust 20 Oct 2012 | 01:55 am
Tomorrow’s prosperity creating today’s debts Many will have enjoyed Stephanie Flanders recent BBC 2 series, Masters of Money, covering Keynes, Hayek and Marx. For those who missed it, or are pushed f...
