Miserable Mismas

I've been busy elsewhere... Work... Moving city/home, and going on holiday. Hence, no posts recently.  I've some catching up to do. Full service will be resumed in the New Year.  If environmentalism is a religion, it needs its religious festivals. The problem for...

The Mentally-Deficient Efficiency Drive

One of the most persistent and peculiar ideas that has been given life by environmental thinking is its conception of 'efficiency'. Environmentalists like to believe that nobody has ever thought of efficiency before, and that it cannot be found without them. One...

Lost Horizons

I've been a bit busy for blogging lately. It happens. One of the things I've been working on is this film produced for the EFD group, starring UKIP chairman, Steve Crowther. The Lost Horizons website is here. One of the criticisms that the film got elsewhere (amongst...

A Sach(s) of Mystical Woo-Woo

I usually try to avoid looking at the seriously nutty end of environmentalism. Paul Kingsnorth's 'Dark Mountain Project' is one such collection of madness. The stories which any culture tells itself about its origins and values determine its direction and destination....

Welcome to the politics of pastiche

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12981/</em> In his speech to the Labour Party Conference earlier this month, leader Ed Miliband declared he was going to ‘do something different today’, to ‘tell you my story. I...

Spiking Pastiche Politics

I have an article up on Spiked today about the emptiness of contemporary political grandstanding... In his speech to the Labour Party Conference earlier this month, leader Ed Miliband declared he was going to ‘do something different today’, to ‘tell you my story. I...

Silent Spring? Or Noisy Winter?

The 50th anniversary of Rachel Carsen's book, Silent Spring has produced a lot of discussion on the internet. Much of this has been rehearsed, ad nauseum. But 50 years is an opportunity to reflect on the failure of environmentalists past and present to successfully...

Ed Miliband is Wrong

One of the more blunt points made on this blog from time-to-time is that mediocrity explains a substantial part of environmentalism's ascendency. It is a rot within public institutions of all kinds that can explain their greenish hue. To take one recent example, the...

Wishing Greenpeace an unhappy birthday

<em>Published on Spiked-Online at http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/11068/</em> The growth of environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) over the past 50 years has been extraordinary. Starting from humble beginnings and means,...

It’s a F*ct – We’re F*cked

This is a guest post by Geoff Chambers and Alex Cull. “Ten Billion”, described as  “a new kind of scientific lecture” by scientist Stephen Emmott and director Katie Mitchell played at the Royal Court theatre in London for three weeks in July and August, and at the...