Over the last six weeks in the United States, we have seen gradually unfold the true scale of two parallel catastrophes. Both involve industries stuck in a seemingly intractable rut; both have long-term roots, occurring amid a climate of irresponsibility and recklessness.
The first scarcely needs detailing. Perhaps as many as 4.2 million gallons a day [...]

Filed under: barackobama, environment, media on June 11th, 2010 | No Comments »

Photograph courtesy of Nick Smith.
“For somehow we know by instinct that outsize buildings cast the shadow of their own destruction before them, and are designed from the first with an eye to their later existence as ruins” (WG Sebald, Austerlitz)
In celebration of the new-year my homepage (now Clare Politics of course – apple + d [...]

Filed under: environment, foreignpolicy, middle east, morganlewis on January 7th, 2009 | 2 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 »