What is environmental (in)justice? A primer in graphic novel style featured in Orion Magazine, and extracted from Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff’s new book A Better World is Possible.
More developments in the perennially imminent nuclear fusion, with new commitments in Germany alongside those in the US and elsewhere. If we had to summarise its journey over the last 20 years, it has gone from theoretically possible to possible to feasible.
Inside Climate News reports on how China uses corrupt police forces to intimidate local reporters writing critically about their investments and infrastructure in African countries.
In this, the year of our lord 2026, the vote finally passed to end hereditary peerages in the House of Lords. The government bribed the Conservatives with some seats for life in return for dropping their opposition to this obvious and long overdue improvement to Britain’s democracy.
The Society of Authors launched the Human Authored campaign this week. Ideally it would work the other way round and books generated by AI would be the ones that need to be identified, but this will do for now.
Recent highlights
Where are Easyjet’s electric planes?
A few years ago there was an extensive round of consultations around expanding Luton Airport. I went to several of them to cause trouble with the local Extinction Rebellion group, and would attend dressed as an elephant or an air traffic controller. At one of them I created a sit-in of soft toys with my…
It’s not solar that competes with farmland
One of the big hesitations around solar farms is that they take up land that could be used for food production. It’s an argument that’s made by climate sceptics who oppose renewable energy, but those on the green side of the equation worry about it too. My response has always been that if you’re displacing…
Osmosis, the other other renewable energy
I’ve been writing about renewable energy for twenty years, and just this week discovered that there’s a whole other kind that I didn’t know about. This is the climate nerd equivalent of my daughter finding a new Pokemon. Usually when we’re talking about renewable energy, it’s wind and solar that come to mind. Biomass is…
The Earthbound Report 