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Eco News September 2024 - To Conceive or not Conceive, that is the question.

Greenhouse gas emissions are not so much related to population growth as to affluence. In the UK we contribute 7.1 tonnes per year each; in the USA it’s 17 tonnes, while in the Congo it’s 0.1 tonnes. That means births in the Congo would have to rise by .. More ...

Eco News July 2024 - An Exercise in Futility

We have re-elected our MP. It was never going to be me, but I stood anyway to try to raise some sense of urgency about the Climate Crisis which was so studiously ignored during the General Election campaign. More ...

Eco News June 2024 - Sort this Ruddy Weather Out!

“If anyone can sort this ruddy weather out, they’d definitely get my vote!’ I woke to hear these closing words on Farming Today two days after the General Election was called. Spoken by a farmer with passion and exasperation... More ...

Eco News May 2024 - Opportunity and Hope denied

We have all seen, either first hand while on holiday, or in the media, the appalling tonnage of plastic waste building up in our oceans and in countries where it has been shamelessly dumped. In 2019, the WWF found that each of us could be ingesting the .. More ...

Eco News April 2024 - Whatever happened in the Boat Race?

One tiny part of our national identity is the throwing in of the victorious coxes at the end of the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Races, but neither the cox of the Women’s Race nor the Men’s was thrown in this year. Why? More ...

Eco News February 2024 - Whatever can I do?

We can no longer be unaware of the facts of the climate crisis: the never-ending news stories of fires, floods and disasters; the constant breaking of temperature records; the sequence of rain and storms that make roads impassable and scupper enjoyment of More ...

Eco News February 2024 - Short Termism could be the end of us…

When our ancestors in Saffron Walden built St Mary’s they could have had little idea of how long their creation would last. They worked for the glory of God for a future they couldn’t possibly imagine More ...

Eco News January 2024 - So how did we do in 2023?

2023 was not a good year. After what was probably the hottest July in 120,000 years, the latest international measurements put us at 1.2 degrees above pre-industrial times. More ...

Eco News December 2023 - The Economic Message of Christmas

Christmas must be the time when we renew our resolve to ensure that ‘God’s will is done on Earth as it is in heaven.But as we look around the Earth, it seems that we couldn’t be further removed from heaven. More ...

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