Tag Archives: behavioural economics
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
Brick wall policy
High energy prices could result in either recession or investment in cleantech. I imagined a car driving into a wall, say, in a film. In one film the car hits the wall and it’s written off. That’s the recession. In … Continue reading
What will we do with our money? Or: is clean-tech self-defeating?
Environmental policy is predicated on a certain vision of the world. It’s a clean version of today’s world. It’s got all the comfort and convenience and fulfilment of today’s world without the smells. To build the clean world policy-makers insist … Continue reading
Mad Men: hope for the planet
Of the two American TV shows we are currently watching at home, Mad Men and The Big Bang Theory, Mad Men is the more instructive in the matter of climate change policy. It portrays the life of high-octane advertising executives … Continue reading