by Andrew Simms | 31 October 2017 | Blog, Modern Folk Tales
Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists, environmentalists and policy experts and activists. Realising the limits of facts and policy alone to change the world, an innovative group of...
by Andrew Simms | 29 October 2017 | Blog, The Absent Corporation
Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a vital, missing debate Is corporate power a danger to democracies? This was the key, under-considered question that the New Weather Institute...
by Andrew Simms | 25 October 2017 | Blog
The first media question raised in response to new economic growth figures is typically about resulting interest rates, but our real interests should lie in considering the impact on our planetary life support systems. The BBC spoke to the New Weather Institute about...
by Andrew Simms | 20 October 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
In a world distracted by political tremors Bill McGuire warns we are waking real, angry giants Too many people think that climate change is all about the atmosphere – if they think about it at all – where the carbon pollution arising from human excesses is...
by Andrew Simms | 13 September 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Prof Bill McGuire wonders whether Miami’s financial district will soon give a whole new, literal meaning to going ‘off shore’, ending up 60 km out to sea Rarely, if ever now, does a month go by without more evidence coming to light of the increasingly dire straits we...
