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...

Off the Grid: Microgeneration – the Spark of Endarkenment

John Vidal, Guardian Environment Editor, claimed yesterday that British buildings equipped with solar panels, mini wind turbines and other renewable energy sources could generate as much electricity a year as five nuclear power stations, a government-backed industry...

"I'm Dreamin' of a White Easter"

It's spring. And you can tell, not by the chirping of birds in the trees, or the frolicking of lambs in the fields, but by the whining and bleating of journalists in the Independent and Guardian newspapers about how spring is coming earlier every year, and how this...

Sustainababble

Writing in the Guardian this week, John Vidal says, The government is in danger of losing credibility on climate change because more than half of all its departments are failing to reduce their carbon emissions enough to reach levels that the nation as a whole is...

Why Monbiot is so Miserable

In yesterdays Guardian, George Monbiot tells us that, A powerful novel's vision of a dystopian future shines a cold light on the dreadful consequences of our universal apathy Oh, God! What is this novel that tells us about the dark, horrid abyss of the human...