Category Archives: Economics

British Treasury’s irresponsible position on carbon credits

Posted on May 15, 2008 by tomburke

TweetShareComment, published in The House Magazine, in May 2008. We are nearly out of time to avoid dangerous climate change and protect the prosperity and security of every single person in Britain. Doing so means making the global energy system … Continue reading →

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Dealing with our discontents – the financial crisis and the environment

Posted on April 27, 2008 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished by the Green Alliance, in April 2008. For two decades the dominant force shaping the prosperity and security of everyone on the planet has been globalisation. The arrival together of very cheap communications and the end of the Cold … Continue reading →

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Tom Burke: ‘We are challenged by a democratic dilemma’

Posted on February 2, 2008 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished on SustainAbility, on 2nd February 2008 This is a great theme that is massively under discussed. At its highest level we are challenged by a democratic dilemma. To tackle the suite of issues surrounding a transition to sustainable development … Continue reading →

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Capitalism, the environment, and sustainable development: replies to Jonathon Porritt

Posted on December 6, 2005 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished on openDemocracy, on 6 December, 2005. Read my response below, and follow this link to see the full article with all responses. A new book by the pioneering green campaigner Jonathon Porritt, “Capitalism As If the World Matters”, calls on … Continue reading →

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This is neither scepticism nor science – just nonsense

Posted on October 23, 2004 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished in The Guardian, on 23rd October 2004. The self-proclaimed sceptical environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has been visible on London’s seminar circuit this week promoting his argument that spending money on climate change is wasteful and that the world would be … Continue reading →

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Sustainable development – a short history of a big idea

Posted on June 5, 2003 by tomburke

TweetSharePublished by Natural England (then English Nature) in June 2003. Sustainable development is a concept with a huge capacity to induce definitional constipation. Any discussion of it can be brought to an immediate halt by someone in the room asking … Continue reading →

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