Environmental news and comment
The Royal Society – Britain’s premier scientific institution – has just released a major report called People and the Planet, arguing that per capita resource consumption in the richest parts of the world needs to come down dramatically if the…
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Whilst working for the Maldives government I was always aware of the need to resist the temptation of making sweeping statements about the impacts of climate change and sea-level rise in the service of wider political ends. I saw part…
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How long is the world going to tolerate the human rights hell-hole that is North Korea? Part theological Communist dictatorship, part dynastic monarchy, the so-called Democratic People’s Republic of Korea reportedly has somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 people confined permanently…
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Many environmentalists oppose nuclear power presumably because they think it is bad for the environment. Concerns about waste, radioactive releases and so on are often cited as evidence for this. Having released a very large quantity of artificial radioactive isotopes…
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