A gentler way

There is a belief – apparently widespread, but which usually goes unexpressed because it’s not the sort of thing people want to talk about – that we are doomed. People might believe this for various reasons of course, including human greed, bad leaders, the potential for nuclear accidents, climate change and so forth. But the…

Introduction Electricity prices in Great Britain are widely regarded – by politicians, businesses and the general public – as being too high.  Yet from an environmental perspective, our consumption of electricity (and energy more generally) has obvious consequences.  How do we balance socio-economic concerns on the one hand with the state of the environment on…