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Beyond the tipping point: the Runaway Greenhouse Effect
When did you last think about Venus? Not in blue jeans, not Williams, not the debrachiated de Milo. No, I mean the planet.
Dr. Mark Nicholson
1 min read
The facts do NOT speak for themselves. We need a Data Singer.
You are, I’m sure, a better world citizen than me. As soon as you saw, on 9 August, the words “It is a code red for humanity”
Richard Pooley
6 min read
“May You Live in Interesting Times”
I have to confess that for me and my family, following a fairly busy series of lock-downs, this summer and certainly this last month...
Lynda Goetz
5 min read
Why do the British litter? What can we learn from Japan and France?
One afternoon late last year I watched a young woman having a smoke on the pavement below my study window in Bath.
Richard Pooley
9 min read
The Plastic Pollution Problem
“Only we humans make waste that nature can’t digest.” Charles J. Moore*
I do not wish to claim any sort of clairvoyance or to say ‘we told
Lynda Goetz
6 min read
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