Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney
When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...
Is consumerism *really* killing the planet? No, it’s worse than that…
Jul 26, 2021
The green movement has an annoying habit of blaming environmental impacts squarely on capitalism, and consumerism in particular. The anti-capitalist slant ignores the inconvenient fact...
Everybody’s an expert now…
Mar 1, 2021
I'm writing this blog at 3pm on a Monday, the very time when, for the last two months, I have had to make the awkward...
First they ridicule you…
Feb 23, 2021
Five years ago, some earnest academics published a study linking the war in Syria with climate change. Much of the media and the twittersphere fell...
Progress is always messy – climate action is no different
Feb 9, 2021
One Christmas Eve Eve, Mrs K and I buckled down to wrapping Christmas presents for the mini-Kanes. I can't stand wrapping, partly due to the...
The Year of Sustainability starts to build momentum
Feb 2, 2021
Well, it's been quite a year here at Terra Infirma Towers already, and we're only just into February. You may have noticed that my usual...
The day that sense prevailed…
Jan 20, 2021
Well, bye, bye Donald. At midday ET, a four year feverish nightmare for Liberals like me comes to an end. I rejoiced when Joe Biden...
I don’t care what George Monbiot thinks…
Dec 7, 2020
One thing, amongst many others, that bugs me about the green movement, is its determination to stay firmly inside its comfort zone of a liberal-left...
We’ve come a long way, Boris
Nov 18, 2020
The climate-sceptic right has long had a frustrating tendency to come up with nonsense arguments that superficially sounds like common sense. In 2013, a certain...
Will Joe Biden save the planet?
Nov 9, 2020
Well, it's the week after the week before. I haven't quite recovered from US-election-fever, still waking at 3am wondering how the vote is going in...