It’s cognitive dissonance. Most of us know we need to change the way we live our lives, but we don’t want to be inconvenienced even with subtle changes.

And yet key Brexit protagonist Nigel Farage and his party ride highest in the polls untouched by the damage he’s caused as he persuades voters (with the help of the Daily Mail et al) to look the other way and blame immigration for the nation’s woes

Mork: “Whenever we have a nuclear accident on Ork we just use Nukeaway.” Mindy: “We don’t have that here on earth.” Mork: “How do get rid of tell-tale nuclear waste? C’mon, Min...the next thing you'll tell me is they'll put it in cans, right ha ha ha." m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfBW...

He’s not wearing a suit

Essex is a seriously water-stressed area … only three-fifths of the drinking water consumed here comes from the county itself. The rest has to be imported from elsewhere

Hundreds? It’s thousands. Braintree District Council has allocated the 5,000 houses Kings Dene new town at Kelvedon to its draft Local Plan. Crown Estates is going to submit plans for 835 homes at Feering next month and 400 already have permission at Kelvedon - despite cancellation of A12 upgrade

Both modern landfills and modern waste-to-energy (WTE) incinerators have become far cleaner than they were in the 1990s but they each have different environmental strengths and weaknesses. The “better” option depends on what impacts you care about (climate, pollution, land use, resource recovery).

Landfills produce leachate, but modern liners and treatment systems can manage this effectively.

I live in a previously rock solid Labour ward that went to the Greens for the first time ever in a by-election earlier this year. The London local elections are in May. Do they think about the effect all this will have on what's left of their strongholds?

Imagine being wealthy enough to end world hunger but playing space rockets instead

Instead of capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, we need to stop putting it there in the first place.

+2C is dead. We’re really looking at keeping it to below +3C now

James O'Brien frequently uses and the quote: “When the facts change, sir, I change my mind. What do you do?” A manifesto should be a commitment but not legally binding. When the situation changes, a change of tack is needed

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I hear people in the UK moan that the world’s population is too high. It’s not the population that’s too high, it’s the people living unsustainably that’s too high as your graph shows

"Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them."

Lawrence Ferlinghetti's words echo a timeless warning - in a world where truth is often distorted, voices are silenced, and power is wielded without conscience, this poem stands as a wake-up call.