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Biofuels Digest blotted its moral copy book in a recent article on palm oil development: The NGOs have manufactured yet another Western justification for the villages of Africa and Asia to be denied the very benefits of economic development that no sane Dane ever denied to Denmark. In moral terms, it reminds us of the man who . . . → Read More: In response to Biofuels Digest (@bdigest) on the World Bank, ‘World Growth’ and palm oil This in response to a post on Vinay Gupta’s blog. Vinay, I think that you’ve missed a fundamental point here. In both the UK and the USA, there is a sense in which these ‘supreme councils’ for the environment already exist – the Environmental Protection Agency and the Environment Agency in particular,and a handful of other quangos . . . → Read More: Response to Vinay Gupta’s musings about an environmental supreme court This post is a response to Vinay Gupta’s call to blog on submissions to The future we deserve. The following is the contribution from Andy Novocin, my reflections upon it are below: A systemic revolution, or, the need for a post-scientific approach I remember learning about the scientific method through an example in a textbook. The example . . . → Read More: The future we deserve blogathon – reflections on “A systemic revolution, or, the need for a post-scientific approach” If you are in a group of people, and you ask one of them their birthday, you can be relatively confident that they will not have been born on the same date as you. With 365 days in the year (not counting leap years), even if you were born at a popular time of year, the . . . → Read More: For every coincidence, how many near misses? |
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