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21 May 2020
Energy and Environment
Bishop Robert Byrne of Hexham and Newcastle described Laudato Si, published five years ago next week, as a “prophetic document that has given a theological and spiritual framework to the environmental crisis facing our world”. An earlier post on the Catholic Social Thought blog developed a similar point. However, Laudato Si called for dialogue and ...
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Philip Booth
21 May 2020
10 April 2020
Energy and Environment
Modern environmentalists often identify as socialists. Members of Extinction Rebellion, for example, often advocate tearing down capitalism and supplanting it with ‘eco-socialism’. Go to any "Climate Strike" or similar type of event, and you will see more hammer and sickle flags, raised fist symbols and Socialist Workers Party posters than you can count. Indeed, socialism ...
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Luke Warren
10 April 2020
5 April 2020
Energy and Environment
I was sitting in a hot tub in Leningrad in the summer of 1990 when I realised the Soviet Union would fall. There were five of us, in our backpacking hostel’s back room, in a makeshift tub. The hot water poured in ceaselessly and poured out over the edge. Brought up in a household where ...
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Kingsmill Bond
5 April 2020
25 February 2020
Energy and Environment
The UK faces formidable environmental challenges, however, the government can utilise Brexit as an occasion to develop ambitious, sustainable and economically sensible policies to tackle climate issues. Since the implementation of the first Environmental Action Programme in 1972, the EU has been shaping the environmental policies of all its member states. Such is the extent ...
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Luke Warren
25 February 2020
10 January 2020
Energy and Environment
The argument made by many such as George Monbiot that the protection of the environment requires the destruction of capitalism has no credibility given the relative success of socialist and market economies when it comes to the protection of environmental resources. However, even on a less dramatic level, it is remarkable how poorly designed government ...
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Philip Booth
10 January 2020
9 January 2020
Energy and Environment
Emma Revell writes for 1828
While this may sound like a rather big claim for such a small pastry, Head of Communications Emma Revell argues that it is only by creating products such as Gregg's vegan sausage roll that customers will be able to make more environmentally-friendly choices. Writing for 1828, she argues that "if we stifle the best impulses of ...
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9 January 2020
MATT RIDLEY AND STEPHEN DAVIES
29 November 2019
Research
Innovation is a very important source of economic growth. It increases productivity and creates wealth by freeing up resources to be used for other activity and hence more output. Despite its economic importance, innovation is still not fully understood and is difficult to predict. In pre-modern societies, institutions and practices worked against innovation. Their main ...
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MATT RIDLEY AND STEPHEN DAVIES
29 November 2019
25 October 2019
Energy and Environment
Whenever a government campaign, NGO or well-meaning public figure endorses lifestyle changes that can benefit the environment, there is a predictable outcry from the usual suspects. “Don’t blame everyday folks!”, they cry. “Just 100 companies are responsible for over 71% of global emissions!” While on the surface this claim stands up to factual scrutiny, digging ...
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Rowan Wright
25 October 2019
14 October 2019
Energy and Environment
“I don’t want you to listen to me – I want you to listen to the scientists. I want you to then unite behind the science – and take action.” These were the words spoken by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg to the US Congress last month. At face value, they are eminently reasonable. There ...
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Rowan Wright
14 October 2019
7 October 2019
Energy and Environment
On 2 October 2019, the Guardian wrote to the IEA accusing us of having "a long history of climate denial", setting out a small number of historic publications, going back to 1994, which the reporter implied supported this claim, and proposed we might wish to "retract" them. This in the context of an article the ...
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Andy Mayer
7 October 2019
