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Monthly Archives: July 2008

Nothing Romantic about environmentalists

Published 16 July 2008

The great nineteenth-century English poets waxed lyrical about nature, but they still believed in humanity – unlike today’s eco-pessimists.

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Portrait of William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The nineteenth-century Greens

Published 16 July 2008

What would 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth make of modern Greens? A half-hour broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

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Eco-imperialism is alive and well in the West

Published 12 July 2008

The West’s pleading with China to cut carbon emissions bursts with ulterior motives

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