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So How Does It Feel, Mr Prime Minister, Being On The Wrong Side of History?
December 14, 2015
Amber Rudd, Secretary of State at DECC, was all over the media yesterday, making out that the UK had played a big part in securing the historic agreement in Paris*. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. The transparent duplicity of the UK’s position had been rumbled the week…
As the Government Steps Back, the NUS Steps Up!
November 29, 2015
Here’s a rather staggering statistic: UK universities produce one world leader in every 50,000 graduates! I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of that improbably impressive contribution to global leadership four years ago, when I was thinking a lot about the role of students in helping to accelerate…
Living Well Within Planetary Boundaries
November 18, 2015
By far the biggest boundary we have to transcend today is our compulsion to keep on transcending boundaries! Over the last 40 years, I’ve collected any number of definitions of sustainable development. One of my favourites is this: ‘To live on Planet Earth as if we were planning to live there…
FiFo – Fish-In, Fish-Out
November 14, 2015
Global food security is all about sourcing enough protein, on a genuinely sustainable basis, for a population in excess of nine billion people in the second half of this century. There’s now an increasingly lively debate about the balance between protein from plants, protein from meat and dairy,…
The Third Industrial Revolution
November 13, 2015
Confronted with the implacable details of today’s climate science, we draw comfort as best we may from the thinnest of thin pickings.
Modi (‘Solar Champion’) versus Cameron (Solar Dunderhead)
November 13, 2015
If anyone needed confirmation that this Government’s energy strategy is terminally, irretrievably incoherent, just check out this press release from the Solar Trade Association: 'The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, today will sign £10billion worth of trade deals today including pacts on…