The title is a misnomer really, but Elizabeth Kolbert’s article does clarlify indirectly why my ‘basic income’ solution never caught on. The search for technological solutions is dangerous, as Ms […]

I recommend this excellent Financial Times account(Pilita Clark, 23rd Feb)of where we are at in the struggle to save the ecosphere. But there is something still missing: Why is an […]

The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4, 17,2,2019) grapples with this in the context of CV19, but the discussion returns more than once to the choices open to the affluent, as […]

I am 86. I have been vaccinated once. My partner, 82, opposes vaccination . She has provided me with articles in the International Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine. References […]

I have not changed sides. My motive is a devious, desperate ploy to save the ecosphere: chessplayers would call it a gambit: an apparent mistake which gains an advantage later. […]

This blog post is short this week, because my source is a Financial Times Article. To try to comply with copyright rules, I have posted it on Facebook.. The gist […]

Are readers of this blog watching 39 ways to Save the Planet on Radio 4? The risk of ecological breakdown could be kept at bay by these practical, technological products […]

Last week I launched an Appeal. I think I can see a way to mitigate the disaster likely to result from exceeding the ecosphere’s limits. Others have spelled this out […]

In 1973 Limits to Growth discussed the global threat of unfettered economic growth. How can economic activity be kept within what the ecosphere can deal with?. Technological innovations were assumed […]

In 1940 Britain faced a threat so serious that bitter enemies co-operated seamlessly in government for 5 years, and everyone was guaranteed a share in whatever was available in drastically […]