by Andrew Simms | 22 October 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...
by Andrew Simms | 22 August 2019 | Blog, Clearing the Air, Weather Bombs
Bill McGuire explains why global heating is making flying even worse… for global heating Even if we often pretend the opposite, we all know how appallingly bad flying is for the environment. Be as green as you like the rest of the time, but just one return...
by Andrew Simms | 23 March 2019 | Blog, Weather Bombs
Weather and climate are not the same, but Bill McGuire is reeling at the numbers rolling-up from recent extreme weather events and how climate change is loading the dice. Here he writes about why… The UK weather at the end of February was was the first time that...
by Andrew Simms | 16 March 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Here’s some evidence-based hope in a warming world… Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we’ve made this short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action...
by David Boyle | 24 July 2017 | Blog
I have been reading Robert Hutchison’s excellent pamphlet on rapid transition – though it does not use that phrase – which includes a hopeful idea: that there is no limit to human empathy. In the end, as he explains, there is a race going on between...
