This is the question put to some of the world’s most eminent intellectuals (such as Steven Pinker, pictured) on this fascinating page, which I’ve been meaning to write about for some time. Responses range from climate change to Wikipedia, incorporating science, politics, philosophy and maths. There’s (arguably) some more veiled sexism from Simon “Not Borat” [...]

Filed under: climatechange, culture, ideas, jonathanbirch on January 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

It’s not a coincidence that one of the Scandinavian countries, Norway, is the first country to declare that it will has set a date for achieving carbon neutrality, 2050. While the semantics of ‘carbon neutral’ reveal that it doesn’t mean that Norway will produce no emissions at all but will manage this target by [...]

Filed under: climatechange, environment on April 21st, 2007 | 8 Comments »