A gentler way

It looks as though Andy Burnham is going to approve new oil and gas developments in the North Sea: Jackdaw (gas) and Rosebank (mainly oil). Oxfam is circulating a petition to stop their development. Who is right? Well, all sides are overstating their case … Burnham argues that we “can’t ignore” North Sea oil and…

There is a belief – apparently widespread, but which usually goes unexpressed because it’s not the sort of thing people want to talk about – that we are doomed. People might believe this for various reasons of course, including human greed, bad leaders, the potential for nuclear accidents, climate change and so forth. But the…