Tag Archives: climate change
To nurture the sanctity of trees in our hearts
A cherry tree in our garden, viewed from below. Imagine a world where human life is cheap. If someone is in the queue in front of you and you are in a hurry, you take them out. If someone else … Continue reading
Football’s real carbon footprint: a vector of consumerism
There has been a lot of interest recently in the carbon footprint of football, both clubs and competitions. UEFA has announced it is offsetting 450,000 tonnes of emissions from Euro 2020; league tables of clubs’ green performance have been published … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, climate change, consumerism, emissions, football, KFC, Samsung
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People who really care about Great Britain
You can’t be an environmentalist without being a hypocrite. It’s obvious why: we aspire to something which we can’t easily achieve. If it was easy, you wouldn’t need environmentalists. If you didn’t aspire to it, you wouldn’t be true. Today … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, climate change, freedom, hypocrisy, Nigel Farage, Scruton
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Taking climate change seriously: regime change, state failure and anarchy
Regime change is where a country or coalition of countries intervene in another country where the leaders are engaging in genocide, crimes against humanity and so forth. Say, hypothetically, a small, rogue state was expanding its chemical industry. It builds … Continue reading
T3-PIP: the small payment which could save the world…
I have been curious about the idea of lots and lots of small, regular payments by lots of people adding up to a big sum of money. And then this money being put towards saving Planet Earth from man’s desecration. … Continue reading