New end of the world book treats climate change just like many other end of times worries that have not come to pass. Continue reading
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Pascal Bruckner: The Ideology of Catastrophe
These are not great souls who alert us to troubles but tiny minds who wish us suffering if we refuse to listen to them. Continue reading
Enviro-Loser Watch: Recycling Doomsday
There are several variations of Easterbrook’s First Law of Doomsaying (after Gregg Easterbrook, author of one of the best environmental books ever, A Moment on the Earth—dated but still worth reading) which goes something like this: Always predict catastrophe soon enough to worry people, but far enough in the future that people will forget when you are wrong. Continue reading
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Achim Steiner: ‘We haven’t even begun to understand the damage we are bringing to bear on the sustainability of our planet’
Achim Steiner, the UN Environment Programme’s boss, fears for our future. But, he tells Michael McCarthy, it is not too late Continue reading
