Category Archives: Environment

Still Drinking a Cup of Joy

Posted on May 21, 2021 by Roger Gosden

The impact of coffee on the environment Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Environment | Tagged coffee beans, Jaguar Friendly, Starbucks | Comments Off

The Peril of Faith in a Net-Zero Target for Carbon Emissions

Posted on April 25, 2021 by Roger Gosden

A critique of putting faith in net-zero carbon emissions Continue reading →

Posted in climate change, Environment | Tagged Carbon capture, Global warming, Tree planting | 2 Comments

Human Population Through the Looking Glass

Posted on August 14, 2020 by Roger Gosden

I can’t avoid this topic forever, not under the headline Peace with Nature. It is the intractable, controversial matter of the teeming numbers of human beings. How many more of us can the Earth sustain in this Anthropocene? Only the … Continue reading →

Posted in Environment | Tagged birth rate, demographic transition, Lancet, one child family, overpopulation, Population Council, Rachel Carson, Robert Edwards, Sanjay Gandhi, Silent Spring, The Population Bomb | Comments Off

Virginia is for Oyster Lovers

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Roger Gosden

“Why then the world’s mine oyster, which I with sword will open.” Thus, Shakespeare gave us a new idiom in the Merry Wives of Windsor repeated ever since, and Oscar Wilde wielded it with customary wit: “The world was my … Continue reading →

Posted in Animalia, Environment, Nature | Tagged Chesapeake Bay, Oscar Wilde, oyster, Shakespeare, VIMS, York River | 1 Comment

Into the Wild at Knepp Estate

Posted on June 15, 2020 by Roger Gosden

Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell loved to travel from West Sussex to the fauna of wilder places in the world. No longer. They have re-envisioned their ‘backyard’ as semi-wilderness. Some backyard! They own the Knepp estate of 3,500 … Continue reading →