Category Archives: Environment, society, politics and economics
Not that complicated
Some people say “Oh, it’s so complicated to be low carbon in this modern society.” Here is a way of simplifying it. You get a reasonable approximation to an intermediate[1] low-carbon lifestyle by focussing on three simple maxims. Slowness Thermal … Continue reading
Nature: love it or price it?
Yesterday my sister sent me a sermon she had given last week at Trinity College, Cambridge. The subject of the sermon was Gerald Manley Hopkins, a poet who wrote about the beauty of the natural world. Here is the 19th … Continue reading
Split personalities
I just found a chapter from Climate Change for Football Fans which I cut out of the final version. So here goes: Split personalities We were standing in the James Hargreaves Lower stand of Turf Moor. The home crowd had … Continue reading
Clarification re the EIB funding lignite-fired power plant
I want to clarify something which became clearer to me after writing the previous post. There are two separable problems. 1. They are funding a lignite-fired power plant. But there are reasons which can justify that – for example, they … Continue reading
A good reason to strip the EIB of its NER300 role
State-owned financial institutions are bad news any day because they are the bowels in which the crackpot ideas of bureaucrats ferment. But the EBRD and the EIB have surely hit the fan with their planned 650 million euro financing of … Continue reading