Thanks to Liane Fredericks at the LSE for pointing to this YouTube video that attempts to explain sustainability. It is based on the Natural Step. I didn't like it at all: all very reasonable, rational and uncomplicated. It makes you wonder how we've not managed to do it!
I didn't think much of the Natural Step either, I seem to remember.
When we bought our electric car in 2014, no one explained that it wouldn't be able to go as far as promised in Winter or when it was cold in Spring or Autumn. Being charitable, I'm assuming that the retailer...
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...