Climate Change
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AI Is Just Software – Not Some Sentient Miracle
Artificial intelligence is not a miracle. It’s not a digital god or a living brain that’s about to rewrite human evolution. It’s software. Clever software, sure, but still software. It doesn’t feel, it doesn’t think, and it certainly doesn’t “know” anything. It predicts. It guesses based on patterns. That’s it. AI Is Just Software, Not…
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What Happens When You Exceed Your Food Carbon Score?
In Summary: Carbon scoring on UK food isn’t coming, it’s here. Oatly started publishing carbon footprints on products in the UK back in 2019, but the system has accelerated significantly since September 2021 when Foundation Earth launched its pilot eco-labelling scheme backed by M&S, Costa Coffee, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, and Nestlé. Sandwiches in British supermarkets now…
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Is Renewable Energy a Con? Why Do Bills Keep Climbing?
Right, let’s cut through the greenwashing. You’ve been sold the idea that wind farms and solar panels will save the planet and lower your energy bills. Meanwhile, you’re paying some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world, your petrol costs more than nearly anywhere else, and billions of pounds are being funnelled into…
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What kind of world have we (or they) built?
I am getting on a bit. Half century long passed.. Old enough to have lived through many promises, targets, grand speeches, and the glossy brochures telling us that we were heading toward a fairer, greener, more sustainable future. And I’m old enough to look back and say: if this is progress, it doesn’t look or…
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Biomass Green Myth – Why Burning Wood Is Not Clean Energy
Biomass gets wrapped up in a lovely green bow and sold as the future of clean energy. Bags covered in trees, slogans about renewable heat, the whole eco-friendly image. But scratch the surface and you’ll see it for what it really is
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The UN Agenda Hiding in Your Council’s Filing Cabinet
In Summary: Since 1997, over 400 UK councils have adopted Local Agenda 21 frameworks originating from the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio, facilitated by an international organisation called ICLEI that councils joined using ratepayer money. Tony Blair challenged all local authorities to implement these strategies by 2000, and though technically voluntary, the frameworks quickly…