A year ahead of the US presidential election, exaggeration about global warming is greater than ever. While some politicians continue (incorrectly) to insist it’s made up, far more insist (also incorrectly) that we face an imminent climate crisis threatening civilization.

Around the world, we’re being told to stop eating meat. Headlines, think tanks and activists all ask us to change our diet to combat climate change. 

Un número creciente de países y autoridades locales están prohibiendo los plásticos de un solo uso. Esto es loable: ya que los plásticos obstruyen los desagües causando inundaciones, contaminan la naturaleza y matan animales y aves.

This year, the world will spend $US162 billion ($230bn) subsidising renewable energy, propping up inefficient industries and supporting middle-class homeowners to erect solar panels, according to the International Energy Agency. In addition, the Paris Agreement on climate change will cost the world from $US1 trillion to $US2 trillion a year by 2030. Astonishingly, neither of these hugely expensive policies will have any measurable impact on temperatures by the end of the century.

t’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved through charity rock concerts. True, the world has made huge progress in combating mass starvation over the past 30 years, largely as a result of improved agricultural practices. Yet, globally, food deprivation still claims a child’s life every three seconds.

Neuseeland wird dafür gelobt, als erstes Land der Welt einen "Haushalt des Wohlergehens" eingeführt zu haben, mit dem der Schwerpunkt weg vom BIP hin zum "Wohlergehen der Menschen" gelegt werden soll. Diejenigen, die etwas gegen den BIP-Indikator haben - insbesondere Grüne, die Wirtschaftswachstum für die Umweltverschmutzung verantwortlich machen -, sehen dies als neue Möglichkeit, um aufzuhören, Geld hinterherzujagen, und anzufangen, sich um die Menschen zu kümmern.

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is one of the world’s largest programmes for early childhood care and development. Now, a new study suggests that nutrition and health counselling delivered under the programme’s auspices is one of the best possible investments that can be made by any government.

Dieses Jahr werden nach Angaben der Internationalen Energieagentur weltweit 162 Milliarden Dollar in erneuerbare Energien gesteckt. Es werden also ineffiziente Industrien subventioniert und private Hauseigentümer finanziell gefördert, damit sie Solaranlagen installieren. Darüber hinaus wird uns das Pariser Klimaabkommen bis 2030 jährlich 1 Billion Dollar oder mehr kosten.

Un'ondata di caldo estremo si è abbattuta sull'Europa e si prepara a mietere vittime. Come accaduto di recente in India, le temperature estreme vengono strumentalizzate al fine di richiedere politiche ambientali più incisive.