Over the last day there appears to have been a pile-on of commentators on this blog all saying that my arguments on carbon offsetting implicit
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What we need is the faith to realise that we humans can innovate our way out of the climate crisis. Not by working to keep things as they are. But to make them as they should be.
David Willets is a commentator on this blog. He posted this in response to my post on advertising: I am not asking facetiously, as I’d
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Can the world’s leaders compromise to save those already alive?
If this is David Attenborough’s swan song (and I hope it isn’t) the challenge he lays down and the response he demands would have made
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The world of business is focussing on the problems of counting carbon when it should be addressing the need to eliminate carbon
As the FT notes this morning: Whenever companies address their climate impact, they tend to review their own immediate operations. But widely accepted science-based targets
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The COP 26 crisis is not that we do not know the facts. The crisis is that we have stubborn old men in charge who will not recognise the truth.
From the FT this morning: And most of the world’s leaders – who will be long dead by 2070 – are only planning to get
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Advertising should be on the agenda at COP 26 – because it drives out excess consumption with the sole intention of making us miserable
COP 26 has begun. There are, unfortunately, few signs for optimism. I am not surprised. Whilst I am quite sure that most young people get
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William Beveridge knew that modern monetary theory was right in 1944. Why can’t modern politicians take note?
This paragraph is in William Beveridge’s 1944 report on full employment, admittedly from the 1960 edition: I have highlighted key sentences, but those in between
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It’s time to celebrate a global tax deal, and then to ask what’s next for tax justice to deliver
The OECD’s new global tax deal has been ratified by the G20, to no great surprise to anyone. There is almost universal condemnation of this
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Sunday morning differences
Sunday morning differences of opinion on LBC. The link does not include all my counter-arguments on the NHS market and on nurses pay. The one
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