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Air pollution in India so bad, it might have shaved off 6 hours of
Air pollution in India so bad, it might have shaved off 6 hours of Obamas life for the three days he was there. Astounding that we pay rather little ...

Corruption last year cost the world more than one trillion
Corruption last year cost the world more than one trillion dollars. That is a trillion dollars we can’t use to get better health care, education, fo...

Thanks, EU, for telling us what we need. Just like banning
Thanks, EU, for telling us what we need. Just like banning high-powered vacuums, we cant keep the coffee warm for too long. As a recent academic art...

Happy New Year. We live longer (our life expectancy increases
Happy New Year. We live longer (our life expectancy increases by almost a week for every month we live). A smaller proportion is starving than at an...

Slowing economic growth to reduce climate change may therefore do
Slowing economic growth to reduce climate change may therefore do more harm than good. Richard Tol, one of the worlds top climate economists, gives t...

The UN Climate Summit in Lima achieved little, just like the
The UN Climate Summit in Lima achieved little, just like the previous meetings for more than 20 years. As the saying goes, “insanity is doing the sa...

What would happen if we brought broadband internet to 3 billion
What would happen if we brought broadband internet to 3 billion people in the developing world? Clearly, the rapid rollout of broadband services ha...

POLITICO Magazine invited me to consider the long-term effects of
POLITICO Magazine invited me to consider the long-term effects of Barack Obama’s climate agenda. Of the environmental measures he has undertaken as ...