Security and Climate Change: the forgotten agenda item?
The issue of security and climate change has, so far, largely slipped under the radar of the mainstream media and the general public. The reasons for this are legitimate.
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The population bomb or the consumption bomb?
Last week, in the opulent setting of one of the Royal Society’s lecture rooms, two prominent thinkers on the environment engaged one another in a fierce battle. The debate tackled an issue that is...
The Green Economy or the Greed Economy?
The choice of the ‘green economy’ as one of the main themes for the next world Earth Summit (Rio +20) seemed to appeal to a range of governments on the basis that it could...
Dark Matter
Like the looming kraken emerging from a murky underworld, the ash cloud has now returned to hunt European skies once more. Flights have again been grounded, airports are in disarray, and political parties have...