Climate Change and the Significance of Religion

Mike Hulme | 15/07/2017

Published in today’s issue of Economic & Political Weekly in India, this Essay argues that there is a growing sense that religion has a part to play in shaping our responses to climate change. Merely understanding climate science, or...

On the ethics of fossil fuel divestment – a response to Willis Jenkins

Mike Hulme | 07/07/2017

A student of history and journalism from the University of Montana recently wrote to me about climate change and fossil fuel divestment (FFD). She had read and studied my arguments against FFD and claimed to appreciate the different sides...

One Man Does Not Control the Climate

Mike Hulme | 02/06/2017 | 1 Comment

It is important not to over-react to the news that Donald Trump wishes to withdraw the USA from the Paris Agreement and seek to renegotiate a ‘fairer deal’ for America. The wailing and grieving around the media that has accompanied yesterday’s announcement is exactly the sort of reaction that Trump is seeking to provoke. It […]

Political populism and sustainability

Mike Hulme | 17/03/2017

The first response of a scientist or scholar to surprising physical or cultural events is to want to understand them. And in this spirit, my reaction to the political events of 2016, and potentially to those yet to come,...

“Deadline-ism”: when is it too late?

Mike Hulme | 05/12/2016

Last Thursday was the first day of December 2016. There was nothing particularly remarkable about the date. Except that it was exactly 100 months since Andrew Simms and the New Economics Foundation announced that the world had only 100...

Book review of ‘A cultural history of climate change’ (Bristow & Ford, 2015)

Mike Hulme | 18/11/2016

A cultural history of climate change, edited by Tom Bristow and Thomas H Ford, Abingdon and New York, Earthscan/Routledge, 2016, xix + 244 pp., ISBN 978-1-138-83816-1 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-315-73459-1 (pbk). (Review appeared in Green Letters: Studies in Eco-criticism, vol.21(1),...

The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)

Mike Hulme | 16/11/2016

My latest book Weathered: Cultures of Climate is published tomorrow (17 November) by Sage. Here, I offer a heavily abridged version of the final chapter of the book, ‘The future of climate’. Cultural theorist Arjun Appadurai has argued...

Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change

Mike Hulme | 09/11/2016

Today’s result in the US Presidential election follows hard on the back of the UK’s Brexit vote in June. Both results – an expression of collective public preference from the electorate – have shaken political and cultural establishments on...

The role of language in the climate change debate

Mike Hulme | 20/10/2016

I have written this Foreword to the forthcoming book edited by Kjersti Fløttum, ‘The role of language in the climate change debate‘, due out with Routledge in 2017. Foreword In March 2015 the BBC screened a 90 minute TV...

Governing the environment in the early Modern world

Mike Hulme | 15/10/2016

I have written this Foreword to the forthcoming book edited by Sara Miglietti and John Morgan, ‘Governing the environment in the early Modern world: theory and practice‘, due out with Routledge in 2017. Foreword The idea of anthropogenic climate-change,...

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Climate Change and the Significance of Religion

On the ethics of fossil fuel divestment – a response to Willis Jenkins

One Man Does Not Control the Climate

Political populism and sustainability

“Deadline-ism”: when is it too late?

Book review of ‘A cultural history of climate change’ (Bristow & Ford, 2015)

The future of climate (abridged from ‘Weathered’)

Anglophone Political Populism and the Future of Climate-Change

The role of language in the climate change debate

Governing the environment in the early Modern world