Despite grim forecasts of a Mad-Max-style landscape, those speaking at the event offered some hope as they outlined our potential survival strategies.
Category: Politics
The making of a National Park City
We need to realise that we are the life we’re waiting to discover out there, and we should celebrate, cherish and protect it, right here where we are in London.
Yorkshire sacrificed to fracking
“Fossil fuels are so inherently dirty and toxic, that they require sacrificial people and sacrificial places, they always have.”
How not to eat insects
In 1880s Hawaii, a “giant insect” was eaten to extinction. No photographs and specimens remain, but the beast was probably a katydid, so it might have looked something like this...
Boaty McBoatface will live inside David Attenborough
The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has found a compromise on the controversial naming of its new polar research ship. Boaty McBoatface will live on as an unmanned underwater vessel, spending much of its time stored within RSS Sir David Attenborough.
George Orwell and Environmentalism
In today's Oceania, the Australian Department of Environment could easily qualify for a fifth ministry. In the name of ecology this department destroys ecosytems, while in the name of environment it aggressively increases emissions.
A Brief History of Austerity
Austerity comes from the Ancient Greek austeros meaning harshness, sourness or bitterness. It roughly translates as "to singe the tongue".
