Essays

‘The dangerous obsession with Net-Zero’

Mike Hulme |

Despite a heated debate at COP28 over whether the world should be phasing-out fossil fuels altogether, the governmental delegates in the end agreeing rather to “transition away from fossil fuels”, Net Zero remains the collectively agreed target. But as I argue in this post for the Institute of Arts and Ideas, Net Zero is both […]

A group of people are sitting in a large room, engaging in conflict resolution.

Learning to Disagree Well

Mike Hulme |
In her first Annual Address to Senate House since her inauguration in July as Cambridge Vice-Chancellor, Deborah Prentice highlighted the imperative for university students to learn to “disagree well” on difficult subjects.  To facilitate this learning, Prentice intends to...
The Covid consciousness book launch with Todd Green and Thomas Faz is the Most Important Book of 2023.

The Most Important Book of 2023

Mike Hulme |
Those readers who followed my blog posts during the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 will know I became increasingly frustrated and bewildered, then angry, and finally depressed, about the institutionalized responses to the COVID pandemic, which in my...
An older woman, fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, with a feathered headdress in front of a group of people.

Meeting Vivienne Westwood

Mike Hulme |
Vivienne Westwood died on the 29 December 2022.  A larger than life character, I once had the opportunity to meet her – at her suggestion – to discuss her thoughts about climate change and a campaigning TV series, to...