The International Energy Agency released their latest World Energy Outlook this week. It’s a crucial report, as these are the ones that the US and UK governments, among others, base their energy projections around. Bizarrely, the IEA are the most optimistic of all the energy agencies. While other experts warn and wring their hands over [...]
Archive | November, 2009
Reply from Lord Griffiths
A couple of weeks ago I wrote to Lord Griffiths about some comments he had made about inequality. I suggested that his view that inequality was a necessary side-effect to wealth creation wasn’t acceptable, and recommended that he read The Spirit Level. To be honest, I wasn’t entirely expecting a reply on this one, but [...]
Tom Hodgkinson on making wealth history
“I”ve often said that far more sensible than a ‘make poverty history’ campaign would be a ‘make wealth history’ campaign. It is, after all, the wealthy people who do all the damage. The less money you earn, the fewer resources you use up.” Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson in this month’s Ecologist column, echoing our philosophy [...]
Time’s Up, by Keith Farnish
Environmentalists are often accused of wanting to send us back to the dark ages, but in three years of researching and writing about green issues, I’ve only come across a handful of people who actually advocate a complete undoing of industrial society (I’m not one of them, by the way). To that small collection I [...]
Midway – message from the gyre
One of my favourite photographers, Chris Jordan, has a new project: Midway – message from the gyre:
Climate change and national security
To the dismay of environmentalists, it was Lord Stern’s review of the economics of climate change that really shook the British government into action. From which, presumably, we can only deduce that as far as the government is concerned the climate can go hang, but let nothing interrupt the economy. Still, better late than never. [...]
inoculating us against reality
I saw an interesting juxtaposition of billboards on my way through the station forecourt this morning. The first was for the Prince of Wales’ rainforest project, Rainforest SOS, and right behind it was a billboard from the Brazilian tourist board. The fact that we can’t all fly on holiday to Brazil and save the rainforest [...]
What we learned this week
Over the past 50 years, Madagascar has become 10% hotter and 10% drier, and is currently suffering a major drought. Green products might make us feel so good about ourselves that we think we can get away with other, less environmentally aware things – a moral offset, if you will – making green consumerism something [...]
speaking louder
This week, Tarzan runs out of trees in this amusing ad from wwf.
Picking up the bill
Not sure where this comes from really, (other than Germany obviously) but it’s a neat little short film. HT nef triple crunch blog.
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