Toppling the hierarchy : What we should learn from Greta
Illustration by Hannah Robinson 2019 can be easily called a year of youth activism. Young people all over the world have been grabbing news headlines. From the Zimbabwe’s democracy activist Vimbaishe…
Can’t we concentrate on climate change?
Illustration by Hannah Robinson Collins Dictionary recently announced that ‘Climate Strike’ was their word of the year for 2019. Ignoring Piers Morgan’s helpful interjection that this is in fact two words,…
Hibernating Hamsters – the key to long-distance space travel?
Illustration by Hannah Robinson Humble, fossil-free, ageless and resistant to radiation; these are no superpowers, but merely perks of a good old-fashioned winter slumber, also known as hibernation. Dr. Rob Henning…
The reality of recycling in the UK
Illustration by Hannah Robinson At the end of September, Biffa, the UK’s second largest waste management company, was fined a record-breaking £350,000 when a shipment of “mixed paper”, on its way…
Alarmism will not save the Amazon rainforest
Illustration by Hannah Robinson One could not help but feel harangued by the media craze that ensued during days of forest fires spreading through the southern swath of the Amazon. Facebook…
We need to create transparent supply chains in order to reconnect with the clothes we buy
Illustration by Hannah Robinson How many of us think about where our clothes are made? Who makes them? Where do the designs come from? Were the original designers credited or…
Cutting out plastic straws won’t cut it
Illustration by Hannah Robinson Over the past year or so, I have noticed a huge rise in individual interest in the climate crisis. This surge in public interest has indubitably…
We should be reducing carbon emissions, not adding more domestic flights
easyJet has announced plans to introduce a new domestic flight from Birmingham to Edinburgh in 2020. The flight is expected to run 13 times a week and take 500 passengers…
Stopping Brexit is essential to solving the climate crisis
This week I joined thousands of marchers, striking pupils and students in Edinburgh as part of the global youth climate crisis strikes. The comparison between the millions of protestors worldwide…
Art can teach us a lot about the climate crisis
Since the publication of Goya’s The Disasters of War series in 1863, art and activism have had an intimate relationship. From Picasso’s spectacular Guernica to the Guerrilla Girls and their…
It’s impossible to ignore the realities of the climate crisis
Our current situation regarding the fate of this planet is not a particularly positive one. We are veering towards a dangerous position, in the midst of a climate crisis which…
The real doom merchants: how the left’s obsession with environmentalism has made it anti-progress
When Boris Johnson first stood outside Downing Street as Prime Minister he championed optimism and said he would take on the ‘the doubters, the doomsters, [and] the gloomsters’. So I…