More Is Less in Bangladesh

Bangladesh landmass 'is growing', reports the BBC: Satellite images of Bangladesh over the past 32 years show that the country is growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (12.5 square miles), said Maminul Haque Sarker of the Dhaka-based Centre for Environment...

Climate Change Delusion By Proxy

Since the first case of the psychiatric disorder 'climate change delusion' was diagnosed in an Australian patient earlier this month, commentators have suggested that the symptoms expressed by Al Gore and the like point to the condition being a rather common one....

90 Minutes of TV; 16 Months of Handwaving…

...and counting... Every day in the UK, £millions are spent on making sure that national and local government departments do not produce too much CO2. Business, schools and hospitals have to make sure they are complying with regulations that require them to reduce...

Under the Moon: Gore's Giant Limp for Mankind

Al Gore announced his strategy for powering the USA entirely from 'renewable' resources -a mixture of solar and wind - by a decade from now. (Are the sun and wind 'renewable'? How?) [youtube dt9wZloG97U] The ten-year time-span, and the 'big project' are borrowed from...

Barr Barr Green Sheep

So, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr has congratulated Al Gore on his stance on global warming. Former Vice President Al Gore and I have met privately to discuss the issue of global warming, and I was pleased and honored that he invited me to attend...

In Praise of Unsustainability

We've mentioned before that everything that humans have ever done has been unsustainable. And not in a bad way. According to architect Austin Williams, sustainability is 'a philosophy of low aspirations, miserablism, petty-mindedness, parochialism, sanctimony'. Ben...

BBC On Bad Acid Trip

The merest sniff of an environmental problem can go straight to the heads of the soberest of science reporters and leave them mumbling jibberish about the imminent end of the world as we know it. Take last Thursday's edition of BBC Radio 4's normally excellent...

In praise of unsustainability

The idea of ‘sustainability’, at first glance, has some footing in common sense. To disagree with it seems to mean standing up for unsustainability, defending houses that will collapse: who would be mad enough? Architect Austin Williams’ new book, The Enemies of...

Polls Apart

One of our major gripes with Environmentalism concerns the claims made by its adherents that it is some sort of popular, grass-roots movement. Time and again, polls suggest otherwise. And yet these polls are rarely, if ever, reported in terms of the undemocratic...

It's All About Ethanol

Poor old Gordon Brown: More than 80 Labour MPs have signed an amendment to the Climate Change Bill, which would force ministers to promise greater cuts in carbon emissions. The Climate Change Bill commits the government to make at least a 60% cut in CO2 emissions by...