Writings
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The End of Tactical Voting? A Post-Election Reflection
After last week’s remarkable local election results — in which Reform UK surged, and the Greens and Lib Dems also made big gains — some observers are still clinging to an old assumption: That the fear of a Farage or Badenoch premiership will, in the end, focus minds — and push voters back into Labour’s arms.
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Paddy’s vision of long-lost village life. Time we tried to bring it back | Eastern Daily Press
In a meeting of our local ‘Five Mile Network’ for resilience, I recently had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Paddy Flynn, my village’s local amateur historian, about his life growing up here in rural Norfolk.
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From failing to prepare to preparing to fail?: The Climate Change Committee’s devastating verdict on the state of Britain’s climate resilience
The report lays bare years of successive Governments’ failure to prepare the UK for the breakdown that is now upon us, with far worse to come.
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Welcome to the Chaoscene – The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities
The fad in recent years for largely virtual ‘communities’ of interest across the world is an artefact of a temporary moment in human history, a moment wherein elevated technological progress coincided with a lack of substantial blowback from the waste products of that ‘progress’. That moment is coming to an end, most obviously through the rapidly rising tide of climate disasters. Incredible and horrendous scenes like we have seen over the past several months, from Valencia to Los Angeles, are set to become normalised. For the foreseeable future, climate impacts will, on average, become worse every year. Among other things, this will affect not just food prices, but food supplies,…
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The Un-insurability Crisis Is Upon Us – 3 Possible Scenarios for What’s Next
What does a post-1.5°C world mean for the insurance sector, their customers, investors, and the economy as a whole? This question has suddenly hit the news, as insurers begin to withdraw from some prominent places, and insurance insiders begin to break cover, as reported by the New York Times, just last week.
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April Newsletter
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at three People, Planet, Pint events — one in Norwich, a large one in Aldgate, and another in Richmond. I was struck not only by the warmth of the welcome but by the diversity of people in the room — people from a range of backgrounds, all engaged in meaningful conversations about what comes next for the climate and nature movement.
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Coat of Hopes visits East Anglia in climate change fight
This article first appeared in the Eastern Daily Press here. Something very beautiful and unexpected happened to me the other day. I had the chance to wear a unique garment that has been visiting East Anglia. This cloak is called ‘the coat of hopes’. It consists of a large long blanket onto which thousands of people have sewn patches representing what they hope for in the face of the climate- and ecological- menace we face. Let me explain it a little more about this cloak in the words of the song written by the pilgrims who are at present walking this coat around our region: (Chorus) Ask me where I’m…
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March Newsletter
I wrote this from London, where I was speaking at the NGIN X BIN – SUSTAIN FESTIVAL, and the ‘Sustainable Insurance Summit’ engaging with key players in the insurance industry on the intersection of climate and risk. It was an urgent and fascinating discussion, and I’d love to bring you into it.
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Why I will never again watch The Traitors
The third series of the BBC’s hit series The Traitors ended recently.
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It’s time for climate populism
By Caroline Lucas and Rupert Read. ...around the world, climate change action is under threat, and not just with a denier back in the White House.
