Category Archives: Environment, society, politics and economics
Socialisation
Continuing on the topic of the conversation with the American climate change sceptic. It seemed interesting that a person with a broadly similar basic education has a staggeringly different view of the world. This guy was brought up in a … Continue reading
Is Climate Change a Religion?
Recently I met a North American businessman. He runs a large industrial business in Europe and his facility is covered by the EU Emission Trading scheme. After a while, as it happens when you are talking about emission trading, the … Continue reading
Candid(e) thoughts on globalisation
How should a free-market green respond to globalisation? Is there anything to worry about there? (we like having things to worry about) The obvious problem is of buying things from a long way away and the associated impact on the … Continue reading
Democracy and the Dignity of Trees
Or: can we avoid death by a thousand cuts?Until yesterday there were six mature pine trees in the communal garden where my parents-in-law live in rural Hungary. Then a neighbour Eva decided that they cause “litter” with their needles. So … Continue reading
The Polar Bear. Or the dodo we can cuddle
The press recently reported scientists finding the carcasses of four drowned polar bears floating in the sea. A polar bear drowning? How can a polar bear drown? It’s a powerful swimmer, equally at ease on land as under water. What … Continue reading