COP26: A short conversation about why we should be scared
The climate crisis is a reason to be scared. Water rises but there are water shortages. Land becomes scarce. It is an extinction event.
Covid Needs a Global Response: Action Not Words
A Christmas to die for? Yesterday Sunak announced a £1 billion package to help the hospitality industry as bars and restaurants struggle to cope in the wake of the surge…
The fridge that would not die
Nostalgia First some personal nostalgia: In 1960 my parents moved into a new house, it had a larder in the kitchen, but my mum decided she needed a fridge, and…
COP26 leaves us short of 1.5 target
THERE has been much backslapping and celebration that an agreement was reached at the COP26 summit which has just finished in Glasgow. However, Rachel Kennerley, climate campaigner at Friends of…
Fossils Fuel Climate Catastrophe
Fossil Fuels and Finance are the only things that matter at COP26 if we are to avoid climate catastrophe. At every previous climate conference the fossils who run the coal,…
Climate change denial
Some folk encourage other folk to live in denial. That’s because they want a culture war. It acts as a shield. They’ve something to hide. So they hide it in…
A short conversation about those hateful climate activists
Let’s pretend we’re victims…. while smoothing the way for a future where there’ll be more victims than anyone can even begin to imagine.
COP26 Saving Capitalism not the Planet
Welcome to the climate con which is COP26 in Glasgow. Here, governments, NGOs, and corporates are supposed to be working together to limit global warming to the 1.5º centigrade target…
Good COP Bad COP
The Sixty Second Scribe takes a minute or two to look over the goings on in Glasgow and has a question or two to ask about the motives of many…
School Students Strike over Climate Crisis
On a day when tens of thousands of school students around the world went on strike demanding greater action on the Climate Crisis and thousands marched in Glasgow outside the…