Greta Thunberg is among a number of climate activists that have condemned Roger Federer’s ties to Credit Suisse bank, a major sponsor of fossil fuel companies globally.
The father of teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg says he and his wife ‘stopped flying and went vegan to “save” their daughter rather than help the planet’, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that they were not ‘“not climate activists” but had made radical changes to their lifestyles after seeing the positive impact it had […]
I cannot believe it took them sixteen years. Shameful. Jokes aside, they really should just rename this thing the Nobel Prize for being a secular messiah and have done with it. Barack Obama won it, you might recall, after he announced that his election “was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to […]
“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” These were the spirited words of Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg in her address last week to the United Nations. Miss Thunberg’s claim that we are “in the beginning […]
If you search the website of the Irish Times for the phrase “Peak Oil” you will find that it appears only once in 2019, in a motoring column, and only then as a throwaway comparison to the Chinese car industry. It is the first time the phrase has appeared in Ireland’s most august newspaper since […]
I confess I find this one a little hard to write about because there are, and should be, at least two conflicting emotions when watching this. On the one hand: She is clearly distressed, and not faking it. Whether you agree with her or not, she passionately believes what she is saying. On the other […]
Experts have said more and more children are being treated for “eco-anxiety”, as parents are warned to avoid “terrifying” their children with talk of a climate catastrophe.
The good news: Even if Greta Thunberg is right, we have somewhere to escape to. The bad news: With current technology, and the 110-light-year distance, it will take us just over four million years to get there. We’ll start with the good news first, from Nasa: For the first time, researchers have detected water vapor […]
It’s not easy being a beloved celebrity in Ireland these days, as Marian Keyes found out to her cost this afternoon. The best-selling Rachel’s Holiday author has almost 187,000 followers on twitter, where she shares insights about her life, blended with reliably progressive and feminist political views on the issues of the day. This afternoon, […]
Credit to The Sun on this one: “Reports in Germany have now revealed two people will have to jet out to America to return the ship to Europe. Some news sources claimed a further two will also fly out to meet up with Greta, however those reports have yet to be confirmed. The non-stop journey eco […]