A gentler way

Yesterday, the Queen addressed the country with a message of self-discipline and resolve. Despite its merits, her speech strikes me as a missed opportunity to encourage us to learn to adapt, and not just hunker down in the face of adversity. As of April 5th, some 65,000 people have died from Covid-19 globally – or,…

On 18th February, Professor Myles Allen, the “physicist behind net zero”, spoke to Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC radio’s The Life Scientific. Professor Allen has a simple solution to climate breakdown. We just need to get the large oil companies to clean up their mess. It works like this. For each 1 tonne of carbon…