There is a misguided perception in some quarters that the looming energy crisis in the UK can only be solved if we accept that environmental damage is inevitable. The argument goes something like this; if we rely on fuel imports then we are forever at the mercy of foreign governments. If we re-open the coal [...]

We often hear about protestors who complain about wind farms looking ‘unsightly’, spoiling the landscape, killing birds and being noisy. Living near to a wind farm set in a nature park, we often walk past the windmills. In the seven years that we have been walking this route, we have never seen a dead bird. [...]

I recently received a letter from a sceptic who claimed that the link between carbon emissions and climate change was a hoax, and that warming and cooling were part of a natural cycle that had always occurred throughout the Earth’s history. The scientific research linking the change in global temperatures to man-made emissions was apparently [...]

Green campaigners and those concerned about the environment were once regarded as fringe activists, ‘tree huggers’ and ‘eco warriors’. Belittled for their stance against things like road building, corporate pollution, urbanisation and 4x4s, and personified as lentil-eating vegans living in trees. Now the evidence for man-made climate change is overwhelming with rapidly disappearing ice sheets, [...]