Gareth's Blog - Terra Infirma

What is Just Stop Oil trying to achieve?

17th October 2022

On the face of it, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) spin-off Just Stop Oil and I agree on our goal: a rapid end to the fossil...

Sustainability at the Party Conferences

10th October 2022

As a political geek, every year I watch the leaders' speeches from all the major UK political party conferences. And every year I post a...

Some Thoughts on Business & Biodiversity

4th October 2022

Last week, the Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group (CoSM) considered the topic of business and biodiversity. Here are my main takeaways: Biodiversity is as big an...

Pumping frack dash, it’s a gas, gas, gas?

26th September 2022

The selection of Liz Truss as the new UK Prime Minister at the start of the month was completely overshadowed by the death of Queen...

We won’t hit Net Zero by wishful thinking

20th September 2022

The internal documents that have emerged during the US congressional hearing showing Big Oil's, ahem, creative approach to Net Zero climate targets take the breath...

Green Queen (and King)

12th September 2022

The Royal Family has long followed that tradition of upper-class British environmentalists who see no contradiction between saving wildlife and shooting it (Peter Scott, who...

Message to our next PM: Climate Cakeism Won’t Cut It

5th September 2022

Here in the UK, the long, tedious slog to take over as Prime Minister from the disgraced Boris Johnson finally comes to an end today....

The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels?

30th August 2022

In our high-carbon economy, everything is dictated by the cost of oil and gas. From an economic point of view, this was fine and dandy...

Brum, Brum, Brum

22nd August 2022

So, my first day back after a far-too relaxing fortnight's summer holiday. For the first week, we hired a narrowboat and explored a loop of...

Climate Change: What difference can I make on my own?

1st August 2022

Regular readers will know that I often get into online arguments with those who believe that climate change is all the fault of 'neoliberalism' (whatever...

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