In the spirit of there being an appropriate Keynes’ quote for all contemporary political problems, here’s one for COP17: “Its better to be broadly right than precisely wrong.” Put differently, critical analysis does not start from a clear-sighted definition of justice but from widely shared intuitions of injustice. This is the simple logic that runs [...]
Tuesday 21st June marked a special day for the ‘Push Europe’ campaign, a youth campaign run by leading organisations, the UK Youth Climate Coalition, Young Friends of the Earth Europe and Bund Jugend. Push Europe, launched on the 6th May 2011, right outside the UK’s Department for Energy and Climate Change, has been spending the [...]
Whilst good progress was made in Bonn, the important question is was it good enough? There is only one answer to this question: no. The pace of progress is disappointing and in fact quite frightening. But this pace is not the result of complex technical barriers that we must wait to overcome. The current pace [...]