“Green” issues are fashionable. Like denim, they have been for 40 years. They are the defining cause of the dissident Baby Boomer generation (that’s mum and dad to most people under 40). We interrogate some of the iconic green themes.
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Why we posted this: Two important but probably silly books have had silly (politically-correct and right-on) reviews in right-of-centre papers. We need to work out why. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money / Truth & Trust. Posted by Richard D North on July 18th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here we post some wonderful (and mercifully concise) ways into issues like feeding the world and African agriculture. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on June 11th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here are some possible answers to a crucial question. Do high oil prices send better signals on climate change than governments ever could? The answer’s mostly yes. More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on May 31st, 2008
Why we posted this: Anti-GM campaigners feel very free to say the likes of Monsanto are liars – especially when the firms say they can help the Third World. The campaigners are making a very serious charge. Let’s check it out.. More »
Themes: Food / Green / Money. Posted by Richard D North on May 30th, 2008
Why we posted this: Paul Collier is valuable and realistic on helping the “bottom billion”. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: It’s the beginning of serious thinking about a major new problem. More »
Themes: Food / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 17th, 2008
Why we posted this: Radiation risk is often exaggerated, and especially in the case of the Chernobyl accident in 1986. The BBC – almost always “environmentalist” in instinct – was almost always wrong about Chernobyl for 20 years. This 2006 Horizon show was its first really decent contribution. More »
Themes: Chernobyl / Green / Interrogating the Media / Nuclear's Future. Posted by Paul Seaman on April 9th, 2008
Why we posted this: The nuclear industry is not wise to over-state its good case to supply the world’s electricity. This speech by a nuclear industry leader captures the contradiction well. More »
Themes: Green / Nuclear's Future. Posted by Paul Seaman on April 8th, 2008
Why we posted this: Here’s a controversy in the New Statesman on a vital subject. Is the world really warming? How to judge the remaining hard-line sceptics? More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green. Posted by Richard D North on April 1st, 2008
Why we posted this: These pieces show the BBC doing a bad job in an area it thinks it takes seriously. More »
Themes: Global Warming / Green / Interrogating the Media / Media. Posted by Richard D North on November 14th, 2007