Newsnight of the Living Dead

For those who missed Wednesday's edition of BBC2's Newsnight, we highly recommend that you watch it: When you're asked to adapt your lifestyle to combat climate change, what goes through your head? Do you embrace the challenge, switch off the lights and reach for the...

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It turns out we've missed a trick in our articles about the fashion for what we have called 'pastiche politics', the phenomenon by which environmentalists attempt to muster non-existent public support by comparing themselves to world-changing political movements of...

The Illusion and Politics of Necessity

Our last post got us thinking a bit more about the WHO's attribution of 150,000 deaths a year to climate change, now superseded by the GHF's 300,000. As we said, headlines - thousands and thousands of them - were generated by the 'cause' that was least significant in...

The Age of the Age of Stupid

It is telling that parts of the environmental movement attempt to ram home their message by telling the rest of the world that they are stupid for not getting it. As we have shown here on Climate Resistance, some argue that psychological mechanisms might be to blame...