Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Friday, 18 January 2019

Vegan diets are unhealthy, don't help the environment and lots of animals still die. We should stop indulging their propaganda.

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It has become terribly faddish to be a vegan. Hardly a day passes without another TV show featuring some sort of vegan promotion. We're...
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Tuesday, 18 September 2018

The New Puritan Left - fat, poor people must be stopped from eating so many burgers

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Ban it! Tax it! For the children! Climate change! Obesity! Cancer! What about the animals! Hardly a day passes by without the boundaries ...
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Sunday, 11 February 2018

Buses aren't saving the planet...

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One of the usual arguments against suburbs is essentially "cars are bad for the environment". This statisitc - from the USA so dat...
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Thursday, 21 December 2017

Clean, green, child-friendly and joyful - why we need more suburbia

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I wrote recently about our confused, often negative relationship with suburbs and the idea of suburbia: So why is it that we have such a...
Saturday, 22 July 2017

"They can pay more for their food" - Jay Rayner meets Marie-Antoinette

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I'm going to leave aside accusations of vanity, self-promotion and smugness because we are all guilty of such vices. I'm going to fo...
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Sunday, 26 February 2017

Loving the place you live - the essence of conservatism

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From Roger Scruton : This is why the true environmentalist is also a conservative. For the desire to protect the environment arises spont...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2016

On efficient farming (and driverless tractors)

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This really does matter (although it will cause palpitations in all the locavores, organic food nuts and pseudo-environmentalists): ...
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Saturday, 9 April 2016

So you're fat? It's not your fault you know.

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**** Or so says the Government's obesity 'tzar', Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at the University of Oxford...
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Friday, 20 November 2015

Cows aren't destroying the planet. Ignorant folk like George Monbiot are.

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**** George Monbiot is having a go at cows . Well, not just cows but sheep, pigs, chickens and goats as well. And probably alpaca, yaks and ...
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Monday, 20 July 2015

If we want to protect the environment, we need to fall in love with the car again

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**** New Start magazine is home to the most predictable and dated of approaches to regeneration. A bunch of folk wrapped in the New Economic...
Monday, 22 June 2015

Three errors in Laudato Si' - and why it's ideas are bad for the poor

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Goit Stock - a bit of that wonderful nature we love All the pomp, power and might of the Catholic Church has been used to promote a soci...
Thursday, 16 October 2014

A reminder - in case you needed one - that the left are the enemy of the poor

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**** I observed a day or two ago that the environmental policies foisted on us by assorted left-wing governments are specifically designe...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

Our environment policies make people poorer...

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**** Well you knew that didn't you? You knew that the deal between big energy distributors, government and the environment movement i...
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Sunday, 20 July 2014

Quote of the day - Owen Paterson on the green lobby...

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**** OK so the term 'green blob' does rather summon up images of Quatermass but Paterson is absolutely spot on in his condemnati...
Sunday, 2 March 2014

Jim and Sandra move to the countryside. A story of planning policy.

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Jim was fed up. Fifty hours a week running the print and design business, endless repairs to a house he didn't really like and Sandra ...
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Sunday, 21 July 2013

Fracking and the legacy of the mines...

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Harry Stone was a miner born He worked to win his wages Riding down the cages And raging at the seams He worked his stall from dusk ...
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Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Green means poor and greener means poorer

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**** The Centre for Cities reports on how economic misery is saving the planet - at least in terms of reducing those pesky carbon emissio...
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Wednesday, 18 July 2012

#Greenpeacefail...

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**** If, say, a lobby group for forestry interests did this there would be the most enormous outcry: The event was a hoax, and so was ...
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Monday, 16 July 2012

A panel of all the folk who screwed up urban design in the first place...

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**** ... or so it seems : "We’ve signed up people from architecture, planning and infrastructure backgrounds, as well as academic...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Politics and the tragedy of the commons

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**** In the context of Hardin's classic 'Tragedy of the Commons' essay, I was struck by the truth of this observation: One ...