I clearly remember that half the country was practically begging for lockdown during the last week before Johnson finally took action. Indeed, many people had voluntarily taken steps to try to cut do… (View Post)

There was some fears in the 1970s that increasing levels of particulate pollution could trigger another ice age, but even then it was quickly realised that greenhouse warming would predominate. By th… (View Post)

That was before the right became subservient to the interests of the fossil fuel industries and rational thought from that quarter was effectively neutered for the next few decades. (View Post)

Of course, back then such technologies were derided by people like Boris Johnson ("couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding") and other right-wing politicians. Instead of offering their ow… (View Post)

Article 16 states that "Such safeguard measures shall be restricted with regard to their scope and duration to what is strictly necessary in order to remedy the situation." It would therefo… (View Post)