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‘Lifestyles will have to be redesigned' A Guardian journalist’s ranting about the ‘neglect, greed and human filth’ of modern China shows that new prejudices about a Green Peril have replaced old fears of the Yellow Peril Election 2010: question everything on innovation! This article explores the roots of Britain's current neglect of scientific and technological innovation, and calls for the creation of new industries for the twenty-first century Sights and insights from Mumbai and Kerala In terms of the workforce skills it develops, how should a region of South Africa like the Eastern Cape respond to the credit crunch? Who’s afraid of electric vehicles? The fact that Greens oppose even eco-friendly electric cars shows that what they really dislike is travel itself The myth that New Labour is pro-nuclear Everyone from big business to greens imagines that British government policy favours nuclear energy. It doesn’t Science, engineering and the two Cabinets How many of our leaders in New Labour and the Conservatives have any background in technology or business? Airports: the case for three Heathrows Why it makes sense to even out international flights over England’s green and pleasant land The Severn Barrage: calling greens' bluff Green objections to the Severn Barrage reveal little more than a phobia of major projects Nothing Romantic about environmentalists The great nineteenth-century English poets waxed lyrical about nature, but they still believed in humanity - unlike today’s eco-pessimists The ‘Regeneration Games’, London, 2012 Don’t let the 2012 Olympics become another Dome or T5! Reality Check on housing and the Land Question The UK government plans millions of new homes. James comes face to face with a developer, the Sustainable Development Commission, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and a woman who is desperate to buy her own home Brown's 'get fit' towns: Kim Jong-il would be proud With its new towns that will force people to keep fit, New Labour is pushing an authoritarian health agenda that will be the envy of tinpot dictators With three new tracts on planning, energy and waste, the government reveals a greater desire to modify our behaviour than to conduct technological innovation Come, friendly bombs, fall on Brown’s eco-towns With his plans to erect zero-carbon homes in zero-car suburbs, Gordon Brown builds on the Blairites’ small-minded approach to housing Next Page |
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