High Western living standards present a profound moral dilemma It’s all about the money. Fast cars, big houses, lavish lifestyles. Living your best life is consumerism on steroids. Such lifestyles, while glamorised…
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…
There is a conflict of interest at the heart of government decision-making In 2019, the UK became the first major economy to pass laws making it a legal obligation to achieve…
Economists use the Environmental Kuznets Curve to justify economic growth in the face of increasing environmental pressures There’s a consensus that sustainable development is a set of ideas that can allow…
Never-ending economic growth on a finite planet creates a profound dilemma Looking at the Earth in all its majesty reveals an undeniable truth — the physical world around us is finite. That rather obvious…
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…