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Achieving net zero is this century’s Moonshot. The prize is minimising the severity of the worst climate consequences of global heating – leaving our children and future generations a sustainable “grand oasis” here on Earth.
- Nick Dunstone, writing in the Conversation

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Second Nature 060 is now available

Confirmation bias (never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe), the collapse or slowdown of the AMOC, electric railways, plug-in solar, the conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, curtailment, hydrogen from waste, Viking toilet paper, consumerism, do we need SMRs? 

Second Nature 059 is now available

Mainly about electricity generation, both GB and globally, but also contains comment about possible collapse of the AMOC, the Coalition of the Willing, microplastics, feeding garden birds, too much information about soap, and Izal Medicated toilet paper.

Second Nature 058 is now available

On 3rd April gas provides 5% of GB electricity, India finally announces its NDC under the Paris Agreement, first conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels, a new record for GB solar, 20 years since The Stern Report, too much about toilet paper, a new B Corp certification process, take your litter home, should we ban balloons?

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Climate experts brief an audience of MPs, peers and other influential figures in public life.

Small Actions

Although small actions might not solve the climate crisis, they remind us that we are intrinsic parts of the world and its ecosystems.

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