26 April, 2010 // Category: Environment
Clive Hamilton is the author of Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change amongst many other works. He spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on accepting the reality of catastrophic climate change and how humanity can adapt to a harsher future. At the start of your book you...
23 April, 2010 // Category: Environment
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus are names that may be familiar. They are the authors of The Death of Environmentalism – a notorious critique on the tactics of the green movement that attempts to address environmental goals from a radically different perspective. Most recently, the two...
13 April, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Economy, Environment
Michael Prior is an international consultant economist specialising in energy and environment. He was previously Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute at York University. This article is from issue 44 of the journal Soundings, and is exclusively available online at NLP. The debacle of...
14 February, 2010 // Category: Environment, Media
Anyone following the recent string of articles in the mainstream press attacking the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may have entertained a sneaking suspicion that the hidden hand of the climate denial lobby was at work behind many of them. That suspicion, it turns out, is...
26 January, 2010 // Category: Economy, Environment
Noam Chomsky, once described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive”, is one of the leading figures on the international left today. NLP’s David Wearing spoke with him about nuclear proliferation, climate change, Haiti and the financial crisis. David...
25 June, 2008 // Category: Environment, Politics
First the bad news. If we had thought the public debate on climate change had been firmly shifted from the basic “experts are divided” stage to the equally illusory but more propitious “it’s happening, but we’re dealing with it” phase, the public may have just given us a reality check....