October 2019

There is no sign of an occupation of the streets of Semington this week, and it really does look as if Extinction Rebellion will be in London and elsewhere rather than here.  Just as well, really, as it would be...

The changing climate of the planet and the remarkable growth in human numbers and riches both stem from the combustion of billions of tonnes of fossil fuel to produce industrial power, electricity, transport, heating and, more recently, computation. Three-quarters of...

I've been browsing back numbers of The New Internationalist and an article on "What if...we reduced carbon emissions to zero by 2025?" caught my eye. In this, NI co-editor Hazel Healy sketches out "a radical scenario of carbon cold-turkey".  It is...