“All the necessary technologies and all the necessary policies to reach zero carbon are proven and waiting to go.” Paul Allen, Can Britain Become Zero Carbon?, Centre for Alternative Technology, 2018 “Consumerism – ever restless, never sated – threatens us with climate breakdown, helps catalyse a sixth great extinction, imperils global water supplies, and reduces…

“Four seconds to midnight … that’s plenty of time!” Anonymous I assume there are other aspiring blog writers who experience the sensation of gawping like a fish at a screen as blank as one’s mind, gasping for ideas like the fish trying to breathe out of water. Maybe it just afflicts those of us of…