In 1962 Rachel Carson published her seminal work, Silent Spring, warning that excessive use of synthetic pesticides, especially DDT, was … Read More
Pesticides: Can We Live Without?
Big Questions
Monoculture: Economically Efficient, Ecologically Disastrous
Economically, reducing the number of types of crops that a farmer grows makes perfect sense. Just as production lines increase … Read More
Eating Ourselves Out Of House, Home and Planet
“Famine isn’t unique to humans. All species are subject to it everywhere in the world. When the population of any … Read More
Society and the Veil of Ignorance
[Including a personal update at the end, under Other Stuff…] I was intrigued by this recent article by one of … Read More
Economics and Ecosystems
Some great snippets from Money and Sustainability: The Missing Link, a report by Bernard Lietaer et al, selected for your … Read More
Unfreedom
These are interesting times for democracy. It was 1947 when Winston Churchill said: “‘Many forms of Government have been tried, … Read More
Of Brexit and Biophysics
Many of my friends are Americans, and I spend a fair bit of time on the left hand side of … Read More
Possibly The Only Time I Will Ever Write About The Kardashians
I don’t know why, but I find it rather depressing that Kylie Jenner has just become the world’s youngest ever … Read More
Capitalism and Consumerism
On a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon reveals to Amy his guilty secret – a large storage … Read More
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