by Andrew Simms | Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, Creative Thinking
Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and Bill McGuire for New Weather. Click here and listen at 35 mins 15 secs to BBC Radio 4’s coverage of Knock Three Times “All you can talk about is...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 13, 2019 | Blog, Clearing the Air, Weather Bombs
Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to act on rising seas In the battle against global heating and climate breakdown there are, at present, two front...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Rethinking Economics
Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog
By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge, the prevention of climate and ecological breakdown, whatever happens with...