This article was first published in The Philosophers’ Magazine. The article is no longer available for free on their website. A central aspect of my philosophical work these days is this: to warn against over-estimating, for example, how much one…
This article was first published in The Ecologist. Caroline Lucas has today issued a striking public call for a new politics of unity among ‘progressives’ – among those, that is, who seek at minimum to rein in the excesses of…
This article was first published in The Ecologist. The House of Commons Science and Technology select committee has just this morning published the results of its inquiry into genetically modified crops and our attitude to them within the EU. I…
This article was first published in Shifting Grounds. With less than six months to go before the most wide-open General Election of our time, a true insurgent party is on the rise, and – despite what the media tell you…
This article was first published on the Cornell University Library website. We present a non-naive version of the Precautionary (PP) that allows us to avoid paranoia and paralysis by confining precaution to specific domains and problems. PP is intended to…
This article was first published in The Oxford Philosopher. Spring 2007: the high-water mark of self-confidence for economic neo-liberalism. In March, both Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke publicly stated that they saw no danger of recession, and that the subprime…
This letter was first published in The Guardian. George Monbiot is correct (The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all, 30 July) in his praise of Thomas Piketty’s proposal for a wealth tax to counteract…
This article was first published on the Talking Philosophy blog We live at a point in history at which the demand for individual freedom has never been stronger – or more potentially dangerous. For this demand – the product of…
This article was first published in The Ecologist. What would a post-growth world look like? Some would argue that it is not difficult to imagine a world without growth, as many countries are already living in it. Japan stagnated for…
This article was first published on the University of Sussex. For more information, see also the Thinking Film blog.
This article was first published by Shifting Grounds. The UK has just experienced its annual budget announcement from the Government. It contained an extraordinary attack on the eco-agenda, including cuts to energy costs for manufacturers. On the BBC Radio 4…
This article was first published in Open Democracy Why are those so opposed to migration so blind to something that will cause it to increase so dramatically? I’m not talking about the sheer barkingness and loose-cannonness of so many of…