Author Archives: simonbrett
When I was a child, and into my teenage years and early twenties, I absolutely devoured fiction. Some time around the age of 22 or 23, though, I veered away from it and begun a search for ‘The Truth’. In terms of my reading habits, this manifested as an almost exclusive concentration on non-fiction. Yoga [...]
Ian Plimer, for those who are unaware, is a man who continually seeks to muddy the consensus on climate change. If polls are to be believed, he and a few others are doing a spectacularly good job. According to George Marshall, scarcely ten per cent of people in the UK regard climate change as a [...]
I’ve spent most of my writing time over the past week or so working on a piece about climate change denial for Lucid Magazine. It’s given me plenty of food for thought regarding the way we discuss climate change, and I expect I’ll write more on the subject shortly. For now, here are the first [...]
At the time of writing, we’re just over four and a half weeks from the opening of the conference in Copenhagen which will define government policy on climate change for the next several years. Yet, even as the clamour to take genuine action on climate grows, there’s a growing movement towards disbelief in the entire [...]
I wandered past the Lego store in Churchill Square, Brighton this morning, to see that someone had shoved a plastic traffic cone through the window. Leaving aside the sheer strength required to propel a chunk of plastic through a sheet of glass, I found myself musing upon the fact that cleaning up the mess, replacing [...]
My friend Fiona Robyn is planning to blog her next novel, Thaw, beginning on the 1st of March next year.
The novel focuses on Ruth, who has given herself three months to decide whether she wants to carry on living.
In order to promote the novel, Fiona is looking for 1000 people willing to create a blogsplash [...]
Ruminants get a pretty raw deal when it comes to debates about climate change. Not only does their flatulence create massive amounts of methane (a gas which traps about twenty times as much heat in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, albeit for a shorter time period); they also consume vast quantities of grains. Grains which [...]
I was at the Brighthelm Centre in Brighton, UK, on Wednesday (October 21st) to hear Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, speak about food security over the next few years and the need to be preparing for a food landscape that looks very different from the one we now inhabit. Perhaps the most important [...]
