It’s a weird but pleasing experience to find myself in agreement with someone whose views I generally detest. It’s even weirder and more pleasant to find an environmentalist actually saying something sensible for once. It’s triply weird when it’s a Guardian columnist. George Monbiot didn’t
Our government has a policy that they are not investing in new roads much anymore because they want people to switch to public transport, walking or cycling instead. This is part of their stated intent to obey the dictates of the IPCC and reduce our CO2 emissions. Prior to the
Owen Jennings I remember my father talking of surviving during the great 1929 depression. Meals consisted of what they could grow – often a carrot, a spud and an onion. No credit at the local shop. No new clothes, no car, homemade everything. People knocking on doors asking for food and
Dr. Jay Lehr cfact.org CFACT Senior Science Analyst Jay Lehr has authored more than 1,000 magazine and journal articles and 36 books. Jay’s new book A Hitchhikers Journey Through Climate Change written with Teri Ciccone is now available on Kindle and Amazon. As more and more in
Christopher Barnard aier.org Christopher Barnard is the National Policy Director at the American Conservation Coalition (ACC) and the Founder of the British Conservation Alliance. He studied International Relations at The London School of Economics and Political Science. According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans
Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, a question popped into the brain, “If a bio-plastic is still a plastic, why is it better for the planet?” Followed quickly by, “Is it better for the planet?” So what is a bio-plastic? A common one is made from fermented plant starch from
Contrary to the popular saying, there are three certainties in life: death, taxes – and no free lunch. But the left are so wedded to the idea that anything and everything from the gub’mint is free that they’ve even come up with a fancy euphemism for it: Modern Monetary
It’s no real stretch to say that plastic is as vilified as coal is in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum of the contemporary theology of Environmentalism. Green-besotted governments are banning plastic with the same zeal as witch-hunters once banished heretics. As usual, though, the watermelon zealots have got nearly everything wrong.
You can forget climate change or global pandemics. Scientists have unveiled an even more devastating doomsday scenario: We’re all going to suffocate. Nearly everything on Earth. Eventually… like, a billion years eventually. All complex aerobic life on Earth as we know it will eventually die as oxygen levels deplete
On those occasions when I’ve foolishly opted to try and debate climate alarmists instead of just patting them on the head and vaguely muttering, “Yes, kids… now, just go back to school and stop making dills of yourselves”, it’s been an exercise in frustration like no other. Imagine
Environmental activists – especially climate activists – have a long track record of not just getting the problems completely wrong, but advocating the worst responses. The Paris Agreement is a typical example: not only does it explicitly assume that climate change is an immediate existential threat to humanity (it isn’t), but
In case you haven’t got the message yet, our planet is heating up. Dangerously so. So dangerously that we have to dismantle our entire industrial society in order to avoid descending into a Venus-like planetary hellscape in just a few years. It’s getting so hot in here that
Eliora The Department of Conservation tells us that New Zealand has been geographically separated from other land masses for over 8 million years. It is often said that New Zealand is dominated by birds, yet for every type of land bird in the country there are 200 kinds of insects,
If we were to believe the Greta Thunbergs of the world, we’re just one car ride away from turning the planet into a desert wasteland devoid of life. But then, if we were to believe the Greta Thunbergs of the world, we’d be drooling morons or Greens voters.
First, it was former union chief and MP Jennie George warning the Labor party to wake up to itself over its “zero emissions” delusions. Now, serving backbencher Joel Fitzgibbon is telling his colleagues to get a grip, ditch the watermelon fantasies, and avoid electoral oblivion. I was, I should admit,
