Covid-19, Climate, Civilization
Civilisation is the thin film of order we build around the chaos of events. Courtesy of a coronavirus we are
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Are Extinction Rebellion protesters just annoying, or are they informing, and making a point? – LBC
I did an interview for LBC on Saturday 12th October with Clive Bull. The discussion was “Are Extinction Rebellion protesters
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Do we need some base provision from nuclear power if we are to keep the lights on? – Sky News
We don’t need nuclear power to keep the lights on, which is fortunate as nuclear power stations are unplanned offline
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Politicians Declared a Climate Emergency – Here’s What They’re Really Doing
. Parliament declared a climate change crisis in May, but experts worry that it’s just PR-friendly sloganeering. . By Simon
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A CLIMATE OF TRUST
The core argument of this lecture is that failure of climate change policy represents an existential threat to civilisation that
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Financing Decarbonisation of the Global Energy System
Energy and Systemic Risk There will soon be eight billion of us sharing this planet. All of us looking to
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Warning that climate change could cause the collapse of civilisation – Sky News
There’s no doubt at all that we have the technology, and if we wanted to, we could deploy it in
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The future of nuclear power in Britain
Thank you for inviting me to contribute to this conference. Phil and Andy have done something very important in picking
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WHAT THE MID-TERMS MEAN FOR THE CLIMATE
The mid-term elections in the US are widely seen as having been something of a referendum on Trump. If so,
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Speech to The Global Engineering Congress at the Institute of Civil Engineers – 24 October 18
REMARKS BY TOM BURKE CBE TO THE GLOBAL ENGINEERING CONGRESS INSTITUTE OF CIVIL ENGINEERS, LONDON WEDNESDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2018 Thank
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