Singaporeans need three planets

Image source: UNEP The WWF released its latest Living Planet Report yesterday, and I went along in person to the Botany Centre in the beautiful Botanic Gardens here in Singapore to get it from from the Chair of the Board of WWF himself, Dr Christopher Hails. The launch of the Report was billed as an [...]

The Economist discovers the economic value of biodiversity

Any more of this left-wing, environmentalist, clap-trap and I might just be forced to subscribe to this magazine! Seriously, though, having managed to get up my nose for several decades now with its doctrinaire free-market editorial, The Economist is actually starting to talk sense, analysing issues such as the plight of the world’s forests in [...]

Is this the final act for the Gulf of Mexico?

The article, Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world, written by Naomi Klein in today’s Guardian is by far and away the most cogent piece of analysis I’ve come across to date on the Deepwater Horizon disaster. To summarise the piece in a few hundred words would do Ms Klein a great disservice because [...]