The Green Files > Monbiot: Environmentalism and Alternative Medicine Shouldn't Mix ...

[TreeHugger] Monbiot puts it like this - environmentalism should be unashamedly science-based if it is to win the support of the masses. He claims there's no room for sentimentality, wishful thinking or superstition, given the urgent crisis we face:

Previous [Previous] YFile - President appoints task force to address student en...

Next [Next] Switchboard, from NRDC :: Elaina De Meyere's Blog :: Incen...

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[skepticlawyer] skepticlawyer » Well, Brendan O’Neill is still a Marxist, even if ...: market economics can be as dangerous as Marxist ideology, because it comes from the same mental position: that is, from the certainty that operating from theory is better than operating from a knowledge of life, and that everything that operates against theoretical precepts, that cannot be made to conform to them, or that goes beyond them, is, by definition, worthy only to be rejected…

[Guardian Unlimited: Comment is free] The business of environmentalism | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: Why should the Guardian not carry my thoughts on occasion, given the varied experiences I have had vocationally, and the things they qualify me to comment on? The paper regularly carries articles by people who hold views on energy policy that are the opposite of my own.

[ScienceBlogs Select] A Few Things Ill Considered : Monbiot interviews Fatih Birol: (Then again, I am not giving any priority to the realities of television...entertainment, sound bites and all that where Monbiot has to). Any way...

[fírgoa - universidade pública - espazo comunitario] Marnie Holborow: Ideology and Language: the Interconnections ...: It is too easy to assume that the strident promoters of English - the multinational corporations and the global brand names for the products that they promote - is the main identification that people have with English. Phillipson stresses that the hold of English is a “synergy between top-down and bottom -up processes” in the overall association of English with “

[BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight] BBC NEWS | NEWSNIGHT | Susan Watts's blog: The tragedy though is for the UK and the cold reality is that we will never have a British Google or Microsoft here partly because of the appalling esteem UK Engineers and Scientists are held in, partly because of a punitive tax system and, it must be said, partly because of the existence of the BBC - i.e. if Google had been a British company then as soon as it had the slightest success some tax-payer funded BBC grey suit would have taken a part of the licence fee and, with no business risk because they would have been using public funds, done the same thing thereby driving the private sector company out of business.

[Comments for politicalbetting.com] politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » Is this how the crisis gets ...: In 1964 Labour inherited a diving economy from the Tories, they handed back one in apoor state in 1970, over thenext four years things got worse - with power cuts, the three day week and so on - and hardly improved from 74 to 79. Up until around 1984 we were stillin the shite, then we were OK for a few years, before Lawson and Lamont buggere dit all up and Clarke was left with no alternative than to manage the public purse in a broadly neutral, non-partisan manner until 1997.

[John Quiggin] The end of neoliberalism? at John Quiggin: daggett, a few comments up you had a go at neoliberals with this sentence: “I would have thought that ‘neo-liberal puristâ€♠would have been an accurate label for someone who, as each new catastrophe of what the rest of us regard as the ‘free marketâ€â™

Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, ,