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Towards a Sustainable Common Fisheries Policy
'If no reform takes place, only 8 stocks out of 136 will be at sustainable levels in 2022. In other words, if we don't make structural changes to the way we do business now, we will loose one fish stock after the other, with a possible chain reaction for the ecosystem that is hard to predict.' At last...
John Hayward Posted: 13 July 2011 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Lifestyle Issues, The Environment,
Earthquakes and Tsunamis: Acts of God?
'People no longer see natural disasters as an act of God. However, we are now reaping what we have sown. If we live in a profligate way then there are going to be consequences. We have a responsibility in this and God is exposing us to the truth of what we have done.' (Rt Rev James Jones, speaking after...
John Hayward Posted: 11 March 2011 4 comments
Keywords: Christianity & Religion, The Environment,
The Future of Food and Farming
A new government report today warns (again) that the world is going to need 40 per cent more food, 30 per cent more water and 50 per cent more energy by the middle of the century. In 'The Future of Food and Farming' Sir John Beddington, the government's chief scientist, says that every means to improve...
John Hayward Posted: 24 January 2011 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
Going Gaga over Halal
In the same fortnight that glam pop artist Lady Gaga controversially raised awareness for animal rights (perhaps even intentionally) by wearing a raw beef bikini on the cover of Japanese Vogue and a full meat ensemble – including hat, purse and boots – to the MTV Video Music Awards, another...
Guy Brandon Posted: 27 September 2010 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, The Environment,
BP's Unlimited Liability
Yesterday we asked who was really to blame for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has agreed to establish a $20 billion claims fund over the next three and a half years, and has further acknowledged this 'does not represent a cap on BP liabilities,' pledging to pay 'any legitimate claim.' That the...
John Hayward Posted: 17 June 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, The Environment,
A Crude Awakening - Who's Really To Blame?
'[America's] addiction [to oil] is fouling our beaches, polluting our atmosphere and undermining our national security.' (Henry Waxman, chairman of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce) It is almost two months since Transocean's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in a mile...
John Hayward Posted: 16 June 2010 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
Ticket To Ride?
Environmentalist George Monbiot writes in the Guardian that plans to develop a high-speed railway network linking London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds should be re-examined. He argues that 92 per cent of its customers are expected to switch to high-speed rail from what he claims are less polluting...
John Hayward Posted: 18 May 2010 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
From Biofuel To Biohazard
'The vast scale of palm tree plantations in southeast Asia (palm oil being the most efficient source of biofuel) is having a disastrous effect on the environment, partly in the wholesale forest clearance and burning that precedes the plantation, and partly in the monoculture that replaces diverse ecosystems.'...
John Hayward Posted: 3 March 2010 2 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, The Environment,
From Climategate to Copenhagen
'At an ethical level the scientific community, like the rest of society, can only function as it practises values which resonate with its Christian roots, such as truth-telling and co-operation. Currently these are maintained within the community largely on utilitarian grounds, but those grounds may...
John Hayward Posted: 25 November 2009 10 comments
Keywords: Science & Technology, The Environment,
Food Sustainability
England’s topsoil is at risk. Environment Secretary Hilary Benn – no doubt soon to be dubbed the government’s ‘mud tsar’ – today warned that population growth, housing and transport are all threatening the health of our soil. Intensive farming, pollution and erosion...
Guy Brandon Posted: 24 September 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, The Environment,
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Michael Lloyd on 2 Aug 2011
A very helpful blog - I just take mild issue with the statement that 'We are not called to conceive,...