It’s been a busy few weeks for populist influencers, especially those whose mission is crude debunking of environmental policies. Presumably some of them will have at least got rich in the process; it’d be odd to think they do all these harmful things for no reason at all. This month has seen a big two-fold campaign, attacking the science behind […]
Look forward in anger
It’s seldom difficult to make young men angry about something. John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger reflected a whole generation of 1950s “angry young men” who were angry about the class system, inequality and repressive social norms. Today, however, young men’s anger has been weaponised against many of the social and environmental norms that characterise healthy societies. I […]