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
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
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
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,
The common perception of Australia as a land inhabited mostly by vicious, poisonous animals is not entirely unearned. After all, we have sharks, taipans, redback spiders and Clementine Ford. But, to us country folk especially, it can all seem a bit too much ado about nothing. But, then you read
I recently reported on a promising technology whereby processed spinach plants can be turned into carbon nanosheets, which can in turn be used to make batteries and fuel cells more efficient. In a neat and somehow appropriate twist, old batteries can also be recycled into plant food. An Australian recycling
As I’ve written several times, our collective approach to the Chinese virus might be called the “Moloch Option”: sacrificing the health, wellbeing and, in the form of increased suicides, the very lives of the young, in order to save the elderly most at risk from the Wuhan plague. The
Like the High Priests of old who dispensed their eschatological, imminent destruction, end-of-times world view, the new high priests of Climate dismiss criticism of their faith with all the conceit, arrogance and glibness of their predecessors. We were treated to such a display last week by Dr Rod
