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…
Continue ReadingHow long have we got?
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…
Continue ReadingLife after death
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…
Continue ReadingWith enemies like this, who needs friends?
Published in The Independent, in March 2001. Exactly a year and a day after Tony Blair stated emphatically that the…
Continue ReadingIs this the end for the green agenda?
Published in the New Statesman, on 25th September 2000. Tony Blair is not the only senior Labour politician whose carefully…
Continue ReadingCan the oil crisis pave the way for low-carbon alternatives?
Published in The Independent, in September 2000. The current oil crisis has caught Mr. Blair and his government embarrassingly by…
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