‘Climate Change is Not the End of the World’

Professor Mike Hulme insists that the Church should not fuel young people’s eco-anxieties (This column appeared in The Church of England newspaper, 12 November 2021 issue) There has been a troubling rise in recent years amongst young adults and teenagers of a phenomenon known as eco-anxiety.  This has been especially marked in western societies where […]

At Last: The Political Left Speaks Out

As the old adage says, ‘Better late than never’.  I think of this in relation to a number of commentaries and essays that have appeared in recent days from the political Left, that at last begin to see the UK state’s appropriation of authoritarian powers, under the cloak of a Covid emergency, for what it […]

Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change: In Conversation with Mike Hulme

You can listen here to my conversation with Professor Mark Pennington, director of the Centre for the Study of Governance and Society at King’s College London. The episode in the This episode in Mark’s Governance Podcast is titled “Culture, Science, and the Predicament of Climate Change”, in which I discuss my latest book, ‘Climate Change […]

My selection of five great reads about the contested meanings of climate change has been posted at Shepherd’s, a new platform seeking to re-create something of the joy and serendipity of browsing the shelves of a real bookstore. As...

How to Frame Climate Change

This interview for the ‘Sustainability Agenda’ podcast with Fergal Byrne covers my expectations for COP26, the role and importance of the COPs in general, and the dangers of an overly scientific approach to climate change– a reductionist framing of...
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