How Sustainable Is Patagonia If No One Can Afford To Buy It?
Patagonia highlights an inconvenient truth at the heart of a shift towards sustainability A jacket will set you back £300. A fleece can be as much as £210. One of their…
Is Climate Doomism More Like Climate Realism?
The odds of limiting warming to 1.5°C seem to make doomism a perfectly rational reaction There are two rather disparate camps that have come to define the climate narrative. On…
Will the Climate Crisis Trigger Nuclear War?
We’re hurtling into a world of profound uncertainty The deciding factor in the Soviet Union building a Doomsday Machine in Dr Strangelove was a paranoid fear America would do the same…
Are Solving the Climate Crisis and Ending Poverty Compatible Goals?
There appears to be an impossible equation at the heart of efforts to achieve a sustainable society Efforts to overcome the climate crisis are all about decarbonising the economy so that…
Is Capitalism the Solution to the Climate Crisis or the Problem Making it Worse?
The rules of the game companies play by are the problem, not the solution The world’s largest pension fund recently threatened to sack the board if they don’t seek an investment strategy…
Why Optimism Bias Is Disastrous When It Comes to Dealing with the Climate Crisis
Optimism creates a false sense of security that everything will be okay in the end Had the Wright Brothers believed they didn’t stand a chance of creating a machine that could fly,…