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I evade my personal responsibility for the things I choose to do. I blame the government, the oil companies, George Bush, the economy, the wealthy and anybody else I can think of for the destruction that my lifestyle causes.
I put my comfort, my convienence and my conformity ahead of the lives and livlihoods of thousands […]

Just about everything we do, including breathing, has a greenhouse gas consequence, and I think that this fact can paralyse people with hopelessness while providing others with an excuse to avoid meaningful action (”I use a cloth shopping bag so my driving and sun holidays are OK”).  

For these reasons I think that it’s useful to […]

The atmosphere of our planet is very thin compared to its circumference.  In fact, you are closer to the frigid vacuum of space than you are to a place just a few miles away from you.
Our atmosphere is made up of gasses, and all gases can be liquefied (think of steam condensing).

If our entire […]

The world faces an enormous, truly global dilemma.   Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions are trapping heat from the sun, warming the earth’s atmosphere, seas and land with severe consequences for climate, weather, sea level, arctic ice, the Gulf Stream and other natural global systems.  Even worse, there is a deadline or

‘tipping point’ […]

Ubuntu is an African humanistic philosophy that essentially says that we can only become fully ourselves through others, and that we need each other to be who we really are.(1)
From the perspective of Ubuntu, the solutions to our environmental and other problems lie in our connections with and

feelings for others - not just our […]

When religious or political ideology meet science, its not a pretty sight. An ideology is a collection of doctrines, beliefs and opinions about how the world works or should work. Science, on the other hand, is a systematic and relatively objective process of discovering how the world works. ‘Should’ doesn’t enter into it.
Since the scientific […]

By 2008 the fact of climate change is almost universally accepted, but discussion about solutions has become a loud and acrimonious pitting of interest against interest while negotiations for the second stage of the Kyoto Protocol are still bogged down. The election of a more competent American president provides the only relief to an increasingly […]

If you’re interested in communicating the importance of climate change and the necessity for change at any level then this 50-minute talk by Solitaire Townsend at MIT is a must-see. Solitaire is managing director of Futerra, a UK communications consultancy specialising in sustainability issues.