https://youtu.be/PvEvfhdSaJo We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working at the speed and scale needed looks like a Green New Deal. Now there's a proposal before Parliament to deliver one. Here's Caroline...
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Economics – A Crash Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yksC12jn_9U&feature=youtu.be Economics - A Crash Course Hear the authors David Boyle and Andrew Simms introduce their new book, Economics - A Crash Course, the first beginner's guide to the subject for the general reader written...
Why flying is heading for a climate tailspin
Bill McGuire explains why global heating is making flying even worse… for global heating Even if we often pretend the opposite, we all know how appallingly bad flying is for the environment. Be as green as you like the rest of the time, but just one return...
How to avoid getting a homegrown UK Milosovic
Earlier this month, the Indian government ended the devolved powers arrangement they had with Indian-administered Kashmir. As I write, I have no idea what the consequences will be. But I do know this is what nationalist governments do. There is a rash of books coming...
Global heating? Climate breakdown is now coming to you in real time…
Bill McGuire writes that it is time to 'Shout it from the burning Arctic, pop the luke-warm champagne!' As the second blistering heatwave of the summer sets in and the streets of the capital begin to melt, we can celebrate one thing at least... At long last the...
A new economics is emerging – but not from the traditional left
I had to take an astonished breath when Boris Johnson explained how committed he was to business – so committed, he said, that he was the only senior politician who supported the banks during the 2008 crash. What, I exclaimed to myself? That is like saying you...
The curious arrival of climate change in politics
There had been no climate debate in Parliament for two years then one that was barely attended. Now House of Commons has declared a 'climate emergency'. Bill McGuire asks what is going on, if MPs understand the implications and whether logical actions will follow...
Shorts and sun-shades in February then drowning in March
Weather and climate are not the same, but Bill McGuire is reeling at the numbers rolling-up from recent extreme weather events and how climate change is loading the dice. Here he writes about why... The UK weather at the end of February was was the first time that...
Can we transform the world in 12 years? New short film for the BBC
Here's some evidence-based hope in a warming world... Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we've made this short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action necessary to...
Fridays for future – sing a song of climate change
Instead of the usual wrangling over policy, as it is a Friday and in honour of the global schools' climate strike happening today and the Fridays for Future movement, here is a song about climate breakdown written especially for us by our long-time collaborator,...









