Last month, we mentioned a conference at the University of the West of England, which set out to diagnose the debilitating condition suffered by those who fail to subscribe to the environmental orthodoxy. We suggested that it's a sure sign that environmentalism's...
Infinite Regress
In a recent post, we looked at some of Green MEP Caroline Lucas's arguments for action on climate change. One of them has stuck with us as especially absurd, and merits further attention: this planet has finite resources. You cannot go on growing indefinitely on a...
The Ethics of 'the Ethics of Climate Change'
James Garvey didn't like Ben's review of his book on Culture Wars. But instead of responding to it, he seems to have merely laid out the same argument again. Science can give us a grip on the fact of climate change. (For a start, have a look here:...
Ethics? What Ethics?
Ben has a review of James Garvey's The Ethics of Climate Change: right and wrong in a changing world over at Culture Wars: Few arguments in favour of action to mitigate the effects of climate change begin without claiming that ‘the science is in’. James Garvey’s The...