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Supporting Just Stop Oil
Climate Change,Society,Politics,Energy,Young People,Net Zero
November 8, 2023
Just Stop Oil’s Slow Marching campaign recommenced on Sunday 29th October. I shall be supporting them financially, and have agreed to speak out on their behalf, and to advocate for their campaign objectives.
CLIMATE WARS: TREE-HUGGERS AND IDEOLOGUES!
July 20, 2023
James Watt, Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of the Interior, died on May 27th. He was a hard man, and out-and-out, totally unapologetic ideologue. He hated US environmentalists almost as much as they hated him, describing them as “a left-wing cult which seeks to bring down the type of government I…
IT’S NOT EASY BEING DRAX!
Politics,Energy,Innovation,Pollution,Net Zero,BECCS
July 5, 2023
On April 21st, the first day of Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’, I just happened to be listening in to an ‘open mic’ session when a young man came to the microphone and launched into a full-on attack on Drax. Not on fossil fuels, or nuclear power, or the utterly useless bunch of Tories that…
Caroline Lucas – A Personal Tribute
June 9, 2023
Caroline Lucas’s decision yesterday to step down at the next election came as a bit of a shock for the Green Party. After 13 years as an MP, 15 years as an MEP, 4 years as a County Councillor, and 11 years (on and off) as Party leader, she had quite simply come to personify the Green Party. Hers is…
Prospects for Energy Security Marred by Nuclear Fantasies
April 5, 2022
This is absolutely the right time for a new Energy Strategy. Unfortunately, we’ve got absolutely the wrong politicians in charge of it. The combination of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak all but guarantees that the new Energy Security Strategy will fail on most counts.
Recognising the power of young activists
Climate Change,Society,Politics,Intergenerational Justice,Young People
August 13, 2020
My principal reason for writing Hope in Hell was the new-found sense of purpose that the Schools Strike movement and the XR protests had given me in the first half of 2019.