IT WAS June of 1991, the apartheid government had just unbanned political parties such as the ANC and PAC, exiles were returning to the country, and negotiations towards a new democratic dispensation were in full sway. The First National Conference on Environment & Development, organised by mysel...

SOME TEN  months ago, I published The End of the Anthropocene, my response to the H20 Day Zero crisis in Cape Town. Needless to say, it got people talking about climate change in a new way. The resulting global debate around extinction has been simply phenomenal. Not only did the IPCC released an...

IN A RAMBLING and shoddy piece of quackery published by Daily Maverick, discredited anti-humanist curmudgeon Ivor Vegter claims, inter alia "a lot of opposition to nuclear power is motivated by fears over the safety of nuclear reactors. Chernobyl and Fukushima scared the pants off people. But the...

IF THE latest IPCC intergovernmental report on climate change, didn't draw your attention to the dire impacts of global warming at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels then a new study of the Earth's oceans, showing the planet is much more sensitive to fossil-fuel emissions than past studies have s...

EARTHLIFE Africa (ELA), the environmental organisation started by 'four bearded white men' during the 1980s, in the aftermath of the banning of the End Conscription Campaign, transformed itself into a national movement headed by women, in the process winning awards. One black woman in particular,...

IT IS NOT often that one gets to see blatant greenwashing non-science on SABC, 'the use of marketing to portray an organization's products, activities or policies as environmentally friendly when they are not'. The latest antics of the Dept of Environment's Edna Molewa is possibly a low-point in...