Author Archives: Laurie

This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown (IPPR)

12th February 2019 Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic stability is possible. The historical disregard of environmental considerations in most areas of policy has been a catastrophic mistake. In response, this IPPR paper – theContinue reading “This is a crisis: Facing up to the age of environmental breakdown (IPPR)”

One Earth, the impacts of climate change

Headlines like “We have only twelve years to save the world” appeared across the globe in early October, in the wake of a new report from the United Nations underlining the scale of the challenge posed by climate change. This wasn’t fake news. The world has already warmed by around 1°C since large-scale industrialisation began,Continue reading “One Earth, the impacts of climate change”