July 20, 2023
CLIMATE WARS: TREE-HUGGERS AND IDEOLOGUES!
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…
July 17, 2023
HONOURING MY AIR NEW ZEALAND WHANAU
After nearly 8 years, I’ve just stepped down as Chair as Air New Zealand’s International Advisory Panel. I’ve loved every minute of it – apart from the Covid years.
July 5, 2023
IT’S NOT EASY BEING DRAX!
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…
June 28, 2023
ROSEBANK: THIS LYING GOVERNMENT’S WORST DECISION
The health of a nation's democracy depends on the trust we have in our elected representatives. For many politicians, lying is now the default position, and this Government is…
October 26, 2021
Truth and Fantasy in Our Net Zero World
In this short-lived breathing space between last week's Net Zero barrage and next week's CoP26 frenzy, it seems timely to reflect on how it all stacks up so far. After months of…
June 23, 2021
USA and China Join Battle for Net Zero Gold Rush
Listen out: ‘The American Jobs Plan will unify and mobilise the country to meet the two great challenges of our time: the climate crisis and the ambitions of an autocratic……
June 4, 2021
Nuclear Energy:Nuclear Weapons – the Inseparable Link
I first took an interest in Greenpeace back in 1973, before I joined Friends of the Earth, CND and the Green Party (then the Ecology Party) a year later. I’d followed the…
May 28, 2021
Getting Real About Net Zero
When it comes to understanding the true nature of Net Zero by 2050, I have one huge request: could everybody please stop flourishing their particular ‘get out of jail free’ cards…