THE FOG OF DENIAL By themselves epistemological, existential and psychological problems of comprehension make it difficult enough for...

POETRY AND THE MORAL SENSE OF PLACE The impact of global heating is now visible to the senses. In the name of progress, humankind has...

ECOPOLIS The Associational Civic Public Ralph Miliband (1989) coined the phrase Divided Societies to describe the way that capitalist...

Human link to climate change stronger than ever December 2012 Human link to climate change stronger than ever: draft report...

SAVE THE PLANET AND WE SAVE THE WORLD ECONOMY Campaigners against climate change are not short of ideas when it comes to connecting the...

Politics and the Climate Countdown 1 October 2012 Time is running out fast if we are to avoid breaching the critical 2C threshold in the...

Countdown to Eco-Catastrophe 1 October 2012 The perilous acceleration of Arctic ice loss and the concomitant threat of runaway climate...

50 months left to tackle climate change 1 October 2012 50 months to avoid climate disaster – and a change is in the air At the halfway...

Warming seas and vanishing fish 1 October 2012 Scientific study predicts fall in stocks and reduction in size of fish as a result of...

All that is solid melts into air - and water All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled...

Knowledge and Opinion As evidence for the eco-catastrophe to come accumulates, we are thinking less about the environment and doing less...

We have changed the face of the planet The Guardian of 15 Sept 2012 carried a story ‘We have changed the face of the planet’. ‘It is...

Arctic sea ice melts to its lowest recorded level Sept 2012 2012 Arctic sea ice extent lowest ever recorded 'It is official. Arctic sea...

I set the tutoring I offer across a range of disciplines spanning the humanities and social sciences within a broader concern with “Being...

ECOLOGICAL VIRTUE 2012 Stephen Emmott is head of computational science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor of computational...

ASPECTS OF GREEN ECONOMICS The Qualitative Conception of Wealth The idea of post-materialism and a post-materialistic ethic and social...

Climate change – the undeniable truth The crisis in the climate system is not merely an ecological crisis and cannot be resolved by...

July 2012 A scientific study set up to address climate change sceptics' concerns with respect to human-induced global warming has...

Pure Wind The enthusiasm of certain environmentalists for renewables in general and wind-farms in particular is admirable, in so far as...

THE CASE FOR CLEAN ENERGY 2012 The crisis in the climate system is the biggest market failure we have ever faced. To deal with it, we...