Achim Steiner: ‘We haven’t even begun to understand the damage we are...
Achim Steiner, the UN Environment Programme’s boss, fears for our future. But, he tells Michael McCarthy, it is not too late It’s a question many people have probably asked themselves, seeing the...
View ArticleEnviro-Loser Watch: Recycling Doomsday
There are several variations of Easterbrook’s First Law of Doomsaying (after Gregg Easterbrook, author of one of the best environmental books ever, A Moment on the Earth—dated but still worth reading)...
View ArticlePascal Bruckner: The Ideology of Catastrophe
These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we refuse to listen to them. As an asteroid hurtles toward Earth, terrified citizens pour into the streets of...
View ArticleIs global warming just another ‘End-of-the-World’ delusion?
New end of the world book treats climate change just like many other end of times worries that have not come to pass. The end of the world is not going to happen within our lifetimes. That’s the word...
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