Is population growth the real problem?
September 13, 2014
It’s predicted that world population will top out at around 9 billion by mid century and then gradually decline thereafter.
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Why not just use less energy?
September 13, 2014
It’s anticipated that global energy demand will double, or perhaps even triple, by mid century. For a bunch of good reasons outlined here, it is unrealistic to imagine that overall energy demand can be reduced within the timeframe in which we need to tackle climate change.
If Germany can do it, why cant we?
September 13, 2014
After 20 years of intense effort in building out its wind and solar capacity, with enormous and ultimately unsustainable government subsidies, Germany now gets about 5% of its electricity from solar and a little over 7% from wind.
It’s time we grew up about environmentalism
September 11, 2014
When I was eight years old, I started an environmental group in my mother’s basement. At eighteen, in a blaze of civil disobedience and a pair of golden hot pants, I pitched my tent at Climate Camp.
Why environmentalists must look again at nuclear energy
August 27, 2014
According to the world’s leading climate scientists: “In the real world there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power.”
Atomic cocktails
August 27, 2014
After 900 explosions over 40 years, the nuclear test-ban treaty put an end to the most bizarre tourist spectacle in recent history. We have not always been so frightened of the scintillating atom – even when we have had very good reason to be.