Environment

“Open Your Hearts and Act”: African Youth Activists on Climate Apathy: It’s November 2021 and hordes of dignitaries from around the world are assembled in Glasgow, Scotland for the annual Conference of the Parties (COP), number 26………it proved to be yet another opportunity lost. 4 March 2022 Read more
Saving Our Planet Requires Systemic and Behavioral Change: The natural environment has been poisoned, vandalized and trashed in accordance with the demands and values of the all-pervasive socio-economic system. Read More
Complacency Rules: Consumerism and the Environment: The 16 Year Old, middle class, privileged, argues that meat and other animal produce are essential for his health, his ability to play sport, and the development of his adolescent brain. Read More
Race to Net Zero: Are We Ready? ‘Net Zero Emissions’ is the new political slogan, chanted by governments and business leaders desperate to be seen to be taking the environmental emergency seriously. 28 May 2021. Read More
Overpopulation Food Waste and Climat Change: In 1960 there were around 3 billion people on Earth, by December 2020 the number had leapt to 7.8 billion. 5 February 2021. Read More
The Rich The Poor and Climate Change: Only the most deluded denier can now question that the global climate is dramatically changing, and that the chaos is man-made. Read more
Saving Our Planet is Our Responsibility: Destructive human behavior based on selfishness, greed and ignorance has created the interrelated environmental emergency. Read More
No Going Back: Environmental Action Post Covid: It’s been a weird time, the last six months, and so it continues; perhaps it always was. It’s certainly been an unjust violent mess in varying degrees of severity, for as long as most can remember. Read more
Air Pollution Mental Health and Covid-19: Lockdowns imposed in response to Covid-19 forced millions of people to stay at home, businesses closed and a widespread hush descended. Read more
Climate Change: All Talk No Action: Awareness of climate change and the interconnected environmental crisis is growing throughout the world. Read more
Decimation of the Rainforests and the Money Men: During August thousands of fires ravaged the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Bolivia. Some are still burning. Read more
Hidden Plastcs: Glitter Gum and the AIr We Breath: The plastic contamination of the natural world flows from three main sources: complacency, apathy and ignorance, a poisonous trinity that is itself the result of a narrow and destructive approach to living. Read more
Zero Waste The Global Plastics Crisis: Plastic pollution is everywhere, it litters beaches, clogs up oceans, chokes marine life, is ingested by seabirds that then starve to death. Read more
Global Rebellion to Save our Planet: “The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past. Read more
Consuming Stuff: The Polluting World of Fashion: The interconnected environmental catastrophe is the result of a particular lifestyle. Read more
Complacency and the Environmental Catastrophe: Ask any reasonably well-informed person what the cause of climate change is and the chances are they will say greenhouse gas emissions (GGE’s), but they would only be partially correct. Read more
Fracking Filthy Fuel: Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions (GGE), and, greenhouse gas emissions (water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O)) are the principle cause of man-made climate change. Read more
Climate Change, Extreme Weather, Destructive Lifestyles:  Throughout the world heat waves, flooding and uncontrollable wildfires have caused widespread havoc, lives have been lost, homes destroyed, livelihoods ruined. Read more
Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Crisis: Climate Change sounds vast and impersonal, but it’s really a very personal matter; a global crisis caused by the individual actions humanity has collectively taken
The Environmental Christmas Hangover: Christmas may seem like a distant memory but the environmental effect of the annual consumer frenzy, over-indulgence and extravagance is lasting damage. And year on year the cost to the planet grows. Read more 
Ending Pollution Requires a Major Change in Attitudes: Pollution has become an everyday affair; a murderous way of life which, according to a report published in The Lancet, is responsible for the deaths of at least nine million people every year. Read more
Climate Change Demands an End to Excess and Greed; Man-made climate change, and the interconnected environmental catastrophe more broadly constitute the most urgent crisis facing humanity. It has come about as the result of a certain way of life, a materialistic approach to living in which greed and excessive consumption has been championed. Read more
Climate change: The Catastrophic Impact on Developing Countries: The Paris Agreement on climate change, signed in November 2016, was the first time all the world’s nations (except Nicaragua and Syria) committed to reduce emissions and cap man-made global warming. Read more
Climate Change: The Potential Impacts of Collective Inaction: Commercialisation has poisoned all areas of contemporary life, and together with its partner in crime, consumerism, is the principle cause of man-made climate change. Read more
Rapacious Consumerism and Climate Change: In the early 1900s when the idea that industrialisation could potentially result in global warming was first posited, the consensus was that it was unlikely, and in any case, an increase in temperature was to be welcomed. What possible harm could it do?. Read more
Worldwide Air Pollution is making us Ill:The man-made environmental catastrophe is the severest issue facing humanity. It should be the number one priority for governments. Read more 
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