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Ben Pile
Admit it: environmentalism was an ugly experiment
Mark Lynas has converted from eco-alarmist to pro-growth rationalist. But he still doesn’t get the problem with green thinking.
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| Tuesday 14 June 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The Pipe: a liberal pantomime in the bogs
A film about local resistance to a Shell gas pipeline off Ireland's west coast invites us to boo at the big, bad corporation.
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| Thursday 26 May 2011 |
Ben Pile
Putting humanity in a kangaroo court
When Nobel laureates staged a mock eco-trial in Stockholm last week, they were really demanding to rule the world.
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| Thursday 26 May 2011 |
Colin McInnes
How hyper-mobility can change the world
By investing in faster and cheaper transportation, we can truly realise the dream of a global village.
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| Monday 16 May 2011 |
Dominic Standish
Is it arrivederci to nuclear power in Italy?
The Italian government has prioritised risk-avoidance and short-term political survival over acute energy needs.
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| Thursday 12 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
The Cube: welcome to your eco-prison cell
Apparently our unwillingness to live in cramped, low-energy homes reveals our psychological flaws.
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| Thursday 5 May 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Shale gas: a welcome energy shock
As science writer Matt Ridley describes in a new report, we have a new, abundant source of cheap energy. What’s not to like?
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| Thursday 24 March 2011 |
Tim Black
My catastrophe is bigger than yours
Anti-nuclear activists’ exploitation of the instability at Fukshima is a historic low point - even for them.
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| Friday 11 March 2011 |
Rob Lyons
People have too much wealth? Get stuffed!
Yet another anti-consumerist tract slams people’s obsession with stuff – overlooking the fact that this so-called stuff has improved our lives hugely.
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| Wednesday 9 March 2011 |
Colin McInnes
Dimming the light on human ingenuity
The candle-lit world of Earth Hour is a decadent celebration of an era that we ought to be glad we’ve left behind.
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| Monday 28 February 2011 |
Dolan Cummings
‘The artist formerly known as global warming’
Two new plays show that climate change is better understood as a moral issue rather than a scientific one.
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| Tuesday 1 February 2011 |
Ben Pile
Scepticism is not an ‘attack on science’
Scientific institutions undermine their own authority when they say we should ‘take sides’ over climate change.
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| Tuesday 25 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Why do greens keep mentioning the war?
We should all welcome The New Home Front: it reveals how nutty and mean-spirited environmentalists really are.
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| Tuesday 18 January 2011 |
Ben Pile
A tedious dollop of eco‑propaganda
Unlike its earlier exhibits, the Science Museum’s new climate-change exhibition neither inspires nor educates.
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| Wednesday 12 January 2011 |
Mick Hume
It’s no surprise to see a police agent go green
The bizarre tale of PC Mark Kennedy reveals some unflattering home truths about both the British state and the eco-protest movement.
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| Tuesday 4 January 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The icy grip of the politics of fear
The snow crisis of December 2010: what a striking snapshot of the chasm that separates the warming-obsessed elite from the rest of us.
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| Wednesday 8 December 2010 |
Ben Pile
Cancun: scavenging around for scientific fact
At a time of great doubt about climate change, policymakers must magic up more ‘evidence’ of manmade mayhem.
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| Wednesday 8 December 2010 |
Eero Iloniemi
Cancun: islands in the climate storm
If Pacific islands are being washed away due to climate change-induced floods, how come land prices are stable?
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| Thursday 2 December 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Climate change: a practical problem, not a moral one
Has ‘skeptical environmentalist’ and scourge of Greenpeace Bjorn Lomborg really had a change of heart and turned green? Er, no, he tells spiked.
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| Thursday 2 December 2010 |
Neil Davenport
Longing for the bad old days
For some greens, the problem with the recession is that it just isn’t deep enough to force people into eco-poverty.
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