I went to hear Amartya Sen a few weeks ago and was rather disappointed – not by the great man himself but by how the session was organised (disorganised more like). It was so bad that it was hard to glean very much about his new book: The idea of Justice. Today's THE reminds me what the session might have been like, and impels me to buy the book as soon as possible.
It's a commonplace claim that the realisation of commercial nuclear fusion reactors is always around 20 years away. It seems to be no different today despite the huge increase in private sector cash flowing into development. What I didn't realise...
Did you see that Simon Stiell, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience in London: “We have two years to save the world.” I didn't and am grateful to Dominic Lawson in The Times...
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...