Is it time to embrace environmental change?

Is it time to embrace environmental change? is a book review of “Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene”. It suggests that, rather than trying to turn back the clock to an earlier era where there weren’t so many of us and our impact on the planet wasn’t so big, we need to work with what we’ve got. It also suggests that if the environmental movement keeps looking back and trying to recreate the past, it will be part of the problem rather than part of the solution.

Extracts from the book are online.

EU court greenlights carbon emissions tax for planes

The EU Observer reports that the European Court of Justice has ruled that EU plans to levy an emissions tax on airlines from 1 January are valid, and has dismissed a challenge to the tax by north American airlines. Under the scheme, airlines have to pay for 15% of their CO2 emissions. The figure rises to 18% in 2013-2020.