Lies, Damned Lies and Journalism
LIES, DAMNED LIES AND JOURNALISM 'How can you help being snobs, so long as this balderdash is set before you?' wondered Thackeray. 'Oh,...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 22, 201033 min read
Nuclear Nihilism
NUCLEAR NIHILISM 2010 Before Christmas, I was asked by The Green Party to join and support the campaign ‘No Need for Nuclear’. This, I...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 201016 min read
Public Responsibility - Time To Share The Burden Of Proof
Public Responsibility - Time To Share The Burden Of Proof Jan 2010 An unsubstantiated claim predicting the meltdown of Himalayan glaciers...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 7, 20104 min read
Teetering on the Brink of Climate Catastrophe
The record loss of sea-ice in the Arctic represents a grave threat to the future of life on Earth, not least human life. For the past few...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 25, 200912 min read
The Transformations of Humanity
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF HUMANITY Dec 2009 From the 1940’s into the 1950’s, the writer on cities and civilisation Lewis Mumford wrote a...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 200911 min read
The Global Civil Society Movement
The global civil society movement Dec 2009 We should begin with a stark admission that for a couple of generations now, most people have...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 11, 20092 min read
Fear and Selfishness and the Environmental Crisis
FEAR AND SELFISHNESS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Dec 2009 'Act for the sake of love': Archbishop preaches in Copenhagen Cathedral Sunday...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 20, 200914 min read
Can climate crisis be avoided?
Can climate crisis be avoided? Can climate crisis be avoided? The simple answer to this question would be ‘no, it’s already here’, but...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 3, 200910 min read
Dupes, idiots and climate change deniers
Dupes, idiots and climate change deniers 2009 Do climate change deniers merit a response? My old Director of Studies once gave me a piece...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 27, 20095 min read
Climate Crisis as the Opportunity to Become Human
CLIMATE CRISIS AS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME HUMAN Back in the early 1970s, the environmentalist Robert Waller wrote the book Be Human or...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 25, 20096 min read
Eco Catastrophe in Our Lifetimes
Eco Catastrophe in our lifetimes Catastrophic warming 'in our lifetimes' - Met Office Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 8, 20094 min read
Giddens' Paradox
Giddens’s Paradox Not one given to false modesty, the sociologist Anthony Giddens has named a paradox after himself, Giddens's Paradox....
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Peter Critchley
Mar 27, 20095 min read
Ocean Acidification and Mass Extinction
Ocean acidification and mass extinction Human CO2 emissions blamed for dangerously acidic seas March 2009 Climate scientists warn of mass...
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Peter Critchley
Feb 28, 200912 min read
The Theology of Enough
THE THEOLOGY OF ENOUGH The theology of enough might help us reach a more financially stable, greener future, says John Madeley...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 10, 200810 min read
Seven Years to Save the Planet
Seven Years to save the Planet July 2008 Review of Seven Years To Save The Planet: The Questions And Answers by Bill McGuire (2008...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 200812 min read
The Final Curtain, or the Need for a Biospheric Politics
The Final Curtain January 2008 We are rapidly running out of time if we are to make a serious attempt to prevent irreversible climate...
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