What’s Going to Happen When We Run Out of Oil?
By design or disaster, the age of oil is going to end It doesn’t look like much. A thick, black, splodgy substance. But locked into oil is massive amounts of potential. Energy…
The Hidden Agenda: Five Reasons Why Climate Doublespeak Has Become a Formidable Weapon
Fact is proving stranger than fiction Winston Smith, the main protagonist of Orwell’s dystopic masterpiece 1984 sums up doublethink. Doublethink, so says Smith, is; “To know and not to know, to be…
Here Are Six Climate Megatrends That Are Set to Wreak Havoc In the Not-Too-Distant Future
We’re sleepwalking into a world of pain When does a crisis not feel like one? A crisis doesn’t feel like a crisis when there is barely any mention of the crisis in…
Why is it so Hard to Frame the Climate Crisis Correctly?
The wrong frame leads to the wrong goal. The wrong goal leads to the wrong actions Climate change, global warming, climate crisis, climate emergency, whatever word that’s used, it’s clear the problem…
7 Psychological Reasons Why We’re Failing to Solve the Climate Crisis
We’re blind to our collective behaviour If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then our approach to sustainability fits the bill. There is an…
Why Does Incrementalism Dominate When The Environmental Crisis Is Getting Worse?
Actions are constrained by possibilities In its latest Emissions Gap Report, the UNEP concludes there is no credible pathway to achieving the 1.5°C target and climate disaster can only be avoided…