Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Jonathon Porritt: Campaigner and Author | Focused on the climate crisis & ending the genocide in Gaza | Co-Founder of Forum for the Future I  've always hated the very idea of the annual World Economic Forum in Davos. I've never been myself, but that hasn't stopped me ridiculing former NGO colleagues only too happy to go on squandering their supporters’ money rubbing shoulders with the business world's ‘great and good’– or, more accurately, the worst of the world's grasping, greedy, earth-trashing, plutocratic scumbags. And the politicians aren't that much better either – and I'm not just talking about the increasingly deranged Donald Trump. Which made this year's Parade of the Plutocrats a real corker. Organisers and attendees pride themselves on Davos being the place to address the ‘biggest threats’ that the world faces. And, to be fair, its annual Global Risks Report regularly features the climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, and eve...

Guest blog by Jonathon Porritt - Sustainability Campaigner and Writer Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-1990) chaired Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future (1993-96), Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission (2000-2009). Originally published here.    There was nothing in the recent TV series (‘ Big Oil v the World ’ – highlighting the fossil fuel industry’s role in delaying action on climate change) that I didn’t already know. But to see that 40-year record of deception, lies and corruption laid out, so calmly and clinically, reconfirmed my visceral contempt for the companies involved – and for those who led them. War criminals to a man (and they were all men), whose war on Nature will indisputably cause the death of countless millions of people as climate disasters multiply the world over. Which tells you pretty much all you need to know about the unrelenting hyping of all things Hydrogen in today’s energy economy. The fact that this campaign is (predomi...