Tag Archives: Environment
Climate change: The potential impacts of collective inaction
Graham Peebles explains the likely alarming outcome for life on earth even if the targets of the Paris climate change conference, which aimed to limit the increase in global average temperature to well below 2°C, were to be met. Read more [...]
Rapacious consumerism and climate change
Graham Peebles highlights the destructiveness of neo-liberalism – the infinite desire for consumer goods and environmental degradation – and argues for a paradigm shift away from individualism and towards the community. Read more [...]
Save our planet: Worldwide air pollution is making us ill
Graham Peebles highlights the magnitude of the problem of air pollution that is poisoning many people, especially the poor, and underlines the fact that the responsibility for resolving it lies with each one of us. Read more [...]
Crises today, catastrophe tomorrow
Lawrence Davidson explains why crises whose impact is limited in space and time, such as regional conflicts, always trump unfolding catastrophes, such as global warming, whose impact will be calamitous. Read more [...]
