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The Earthshot Prize shoots for the Moon and misses
I don’t want to be too critical of the Earthshot Prize; it did do some things right. But at the end of the day, the focus was almost entirely placed on innovation and green growth as our way out of this disastrous situation, rather than the real solution of slashing consumption and shrinking the economy.…
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We Live in a Beautiful Place Ruined by Cars and Pollution
We have the sea a couple of miles or so to the south of us, and the hilly countryside about the same distance to the north. You would think that it would be a paradise for cycling in the UK, but unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the case. Between the hills and the English…
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Has Insulate Britain Achieved Anything?
Edit June 2023: I have totally changed my opinion in the last couple of years. I think what we’ve seen with Insulate Britain, and then more notably Just Stop Oil is the only thing we could really have seen. Aside from collective boycotting and withdrawing of labour, which don’t seem possible yet; the only thing…
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Green Growth And Vaccines Are Both Delusions
When you watch the mainstream media, you’ll notice this striking similarity between the climate crisis and the covid pandemic. The media can’t shake this firmly held belief that we have the solutions to both of these crises at our fingertips. The only issue is that unfortunately, neither crisis actually is actually being improved by these…
