There have been several unhelpful aspects of green politics around this in the last 2 decades: - a technophobia that equates capitalism and progress with pollution, and which sets up precisely the fa… (View Post)

The trouble is you only need the weakest counter arguments, the tiniest bit of grit in the system, and the status quo will reassert itself. Combating climate change is like trying to build HS2. There… (View Post)

You wrote that “The rise in sea temperatures is largely due to the banning of sulphur in maritime fuels”. That’s so bad faith as to be laughable. Look at the fucking chart. Look at it. It’s like sayi… (View Post)

He almost has that intense, stary-eyed sinewy facial leanness that you see in keen cyclists. One of the easiest types to spot, the serious MAMIL. Often in senior positions in business. It’s the pierc… (View Post)

To engage with this seriously for a moment, as well as the repatriation of regulatory bodies from Brussels with Brexit (essentially in-sourcing what had been an outsourced function), we’ve also seen … (View Post)