
Seeking space and light: a review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living
- 2nd November 2020
My review of a new book arguing that the case for moving to a sustainable economic model should use the language of desire rather than sacrifice

Learning Ursula Le Guin’s Pravic: can we think without language?
- 27th October 2020
What comes first, thought or language? Some notes on the philosophy of language with reference to Le Guin’s great science fiction novel The Dispossessed.

The polluters pay — including us: a programme for getting to Net Zero
- 22nd October 2020
Dieter Helm’s latest energy transition manifesto puts a carbon tax at the centre of a programme for navigating the path to a carbon-neutral economy

‘Ecological Leninism’: on waging war against the common cause of corona and the climate crisis
- 27th September 2020
A ferocious polemic by Andreas Malm summons the imagery of Soviet war communism to impress the urgency of acting against the runaway extraction that links corona and climate

People’s Power: taking control of the energy transition
- 11th September 2020
A new book by Ashley Dawson argues that only public control can stop the drift and steer the world towards sustainability

The Economics of Oil and Gas
- 1st September 2020
A review of a new book providing a helpful reference guide to the complex economics of the hydrocarbons sector

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another Planet
- 20th August 2020
A review of Sarah Stewart Johnson’s lyrical reflection on the hopes and fears generations of observers have projected onto the red planet

Boreholes, bottles and black alders: what will be left of us a million years from now
- 26th July 2020
What traces of our energy infrastructure will be discernable in the far future? – a review of David Farrier’s Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils