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…
How Can Governments Support Net Zero While Financing Fossil Fuel Developments?
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…
How Can Economists Claim Economic Growth Is The Solution to The Climate Crisis?
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…
Is Revolution Necessary to Move From an Economy That Grows to an Economy That Doesn’t?
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…
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…