Nov
13
2018
The scientists are now solemnly warning us that we have only a few years to avoid an environmental catastrophe so vast it will engulf every person in the world. But people don't believe them. It is as if every...
Nov
07
2018
Is science the mythical narrative of western capitalism? Well yes and no. It is not, at least in the sense that science discovers facts about nature and they are true whether the reigning economic system is capitalism or primitive...
Oct
31
2018
from George Monbiot writing in the Guardian 31/x/18
It’s not about “them”, it’s about us. The horrific rate of biological annihilation reported this week – 60% of the Earth’s vertebrate wildlife gone since 1970 – is driven primarily by the...
Oct
16
2018
Dear Reverend Every Vicar,
Perhaps you have remarked the striking parallels between the dire warnings that the climate scientists are giving us and the descriptions of the last times that we read in the synoptic gospels. I am writing to...
Oct
09
2018
An Unhappy Accident.
Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Selfish Gene’ was published in 1976 and Mrs Thatcher came to power in 1979. Unfortunately, the way the book was often interpreted played into the hands of Mrs Thatcher’s doctrine that economic self-serving behaviour...
Oct
05
2018
Climatologists use five types to categorize hurricanes running from 1 to 5, 5 being the most severe. A 5 is defined as a hurricane that is anything above 157 mph. Last year Hurricane Patricia reached 215 mph which is a...
Oct
02
2018
The trouble with capitalism is that it has no sense of original sin, a kind of basic moral obtuseness that underlies so much of what we do. No, the invisible hand is not the hand of God as Adam...
Sep
25
2018
Subsidiarity is the doctrine that decisions should be taken at the lowest level of authority possible, a teaching especially espoused by two institutions that practise it least, the EU and the Vatican. But then in politics when did anything...