Elizabeth Harper
We finish our discussion of new nuclear with a look into how modern day economics has impacted nuclear power. We live in an economic system constructed around the ideology of neoliberalism. This laissez-faire economic thinking prioritises the free-market and the curtailing of the state, which was actualised in the 1980s by politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret […]
On the 19th October it was reported, in not so many words, that Britain has a renewable energy problem. Chief environmental scientist to the UN Professor Jacquie McGlade explicitly criticised the UK government for cutting subsidies for the development of renewable energy sources whilst simultaneously giving tax breaks to large oil and gas companies. Amongst […]