Published in The Observer, in April 2003. Vultures are ugly birds. A powerful evolutionary logic seems to have ensured that…
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Published in Inside Track, the quarterly magazine of Green Alliance, Issue 4 (Spring 2003). It was very easy to underestimate…
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Published in the New Statesman’s special supplement on energy Power for the people, on 24th February 2003. On 24 January,…
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Pulished in July 2002. The world into which I was born was occupied by about 2.5 billion people and 6…
Continue ReadingWritten debate with Bjorn Lomborg
A debate in Prospect Magazine through correspondence between Bjorn Lomborg and me, published across August and September of 2001. My…
Continue ReadingTen Pinches of salt: a retort to Bjorn Lomborg
My briefing Ten Pinches of Salt published by the Green Alliance, in August 2001. Written as a reaction to the imminent…
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Published in the New Statesman, on 16th July 2001. The environment ministers and officials who gather in Bonn from 16-27…
Continue ReadingPrepare for middle-class outrage
Published in the New Statesman, on 25th June 2001. At midday on the day after the election, Jack Straw was…
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Written for publication in June 2001. Climate change has much in common as an issue with nuclear disarmament and trade…
Continue ReadingBush makes things hot for Americans
Published in the New Statesman, on 26th March 2001. This month, President Bush declared war on the world’s efforts to…
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