Category Archives: Survival of the Human Race

COP On The Long and Winding Road

Posted on November 16, 2021 by davidsprott

A short review of James Lovelock’s last book and an optimist’s view of how we will survive the climate crisis. Continue reading →

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Methinks Ms Thunberg Protests Too Much!

Posted on November 6, 2021 by davidsprott

There’s nothing wrong with protest. It serves a valuable purpose. But I suspect I’m not alone in thinking that Greta Thunberg leading tens of thousands of mostly young people in singing, “You can shove your climate crisis up your A**e” … Continue reading →

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Prepare to Critically Assess the Hype Around COP26

Posted on October 27, 2021 by davidsprott

I’m reading a very interesting book by William Catton called Overshoot. Amazingly this was first published in 1980, yet describes where our world is today, how we arrived at the current mess and what we need to do to extricate ourselves. Continue reading →

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Don’t Panic Mr. Mannering!

Posted on August 8, 2021 by davidsprott

I have made the point many times that it will be almost impossible to link individual events to global climate. Hard evidence is almost impossible to acquire until large numbers of events and lots of data are available. By then it will be obvious to all. But given this conundrum we must expect a deluge of climate denial. In the last 18 months we have seen a huge amount of fake news and conspiracy theories surrounding Covid19. Given the extremely difficult and urgent decisions that will now need to be made around climate, we can expect a battle royal. Continue reading →

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Climate Change Becomes Real for Many

Posted on July 16, 2021 by davidsprott

The question we have to ask ourselves is, have the terrible events of this month done sufficient to cause the world to stop, look and listen and then act differently. I would have to say, probably not Continue reading →

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There’s More Bad News – Plastic is Even More Deadly than We Realised

Posted on March 18, 2021 by davidsprott

Just when we are starting to hope that we can see an end to the Covid19 pandemic along comes more bad news. I read today that research now shows that tiny plastic particles in the lungs of pregnant rats pass … Continue reading →

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