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Climate breakdown and the threat to democracy
David Attenborough’s new film Ocean has just been released. Attenborough makes the case that the future of life on earth depends on life in the sea. He draws our attention to the damage we are doing from the way we fish. “It is hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish” than bottom…
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Blair and Net Zero
Yesterday, the Tony Blair Institute published a report with a foreword by Tony Blair, in which he argued that limiting fossil fuels is “doomed to fail”. People in developed countries are being asked to make “financial sacrifices”, he wrote, “when they know their impact on global emissions is minimal”. According to Blair, current Net Zero…