It has only barely been reported, but the levels of PPE litter on the UK's streets seem to have been growing. Even Untidy Britain is shocked. You might have thought that the pandemic now engulfing the UK would have dramatically reduced the opportunities for littering, but it seems not. Discarded PPE is a phenomenon in the USA as well, judging by the media coverage. The lesson would seem to be never underestimate the ingenuity of people for littering.
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...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...
Could also say, 'Never underestimate the ability of fools for they are an ingenious lot.'