One reason for the Greenland independence movement is the vast potential income to be made from AI datacentres
Read More »No acceptable alternative
Debate” about environmental issues is long on whining but very, very short on workable solutions
Read More »What did they expect?
The environmental movement has always had a nasty habit of embracing the products of coal while attempting to hide their carbon content.
Read More »A sorry saga
The end achievement of the COP conferences may well turn out to be lowering public support for addressing climate change.
Read More »It begins
Nobody has a plan... its just another instance of the neoliberal Underpants Gnomes approach to problem solving.
Read More »A different intermittency
For an insight into how the Green Industrial Complex operates, you need only look at the difference between the latest government guidance to the water industry regulator and the manner in which the regulator and the industry have been treated by the media in the last few days. Nicholas Hellen …
Read More »Brexit Déjà vu
Just when you thought he might have left the political stage, Nigel Farage is back again. This time he is heading up the opportunist campaign to bury “Net Zero” under the banner “Vote Power, Not Poverty.” And just as with Brexit – and for much the same reasons – he …
Read More »Imperialism in bright green
The human ability to disconnect from and deny geopolitical reality lies at the heart of the “green” net-zero project. Most obviously, those – like the current UK Prime Minister – who claim victories along the road to the Nirvana of net-zero must maintain blindness to the way in which the …
Read More »It’s okay to look up
I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: “We’ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading …
Read More »Beyond the green false deal
What you are watching is an international trade fayre for a burgeoning green industry. It is no accident that the fossil fuel corporations are over-represented or that the banking and financial sector are heavily involved. Because, while human-caused climate change is real enough, the “solution” you are being sold is …
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