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If Only The Guardian Understood Numbers – Fat Chance
As we know the arts graduates that produce The Guardian don’t understand numbers in the slightest. That’s why…
Environmentalism – Wasting Our Most Limited, Precious, Resource, Our Time
The core belief of environmentalism is that we face a world of scarce resources so we’d better go…
Is Liberty Vittert Actually This Stupid – Making Money By Recycling Plastics
Liberty Vittert is rather the public face of a certain sort of science these days. Statistical science, and…
International Statistic Of The Year – 90.5% Of All Plastics Aren’t Recycled
From The Conversation: This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of…
A New £1 Billion Tax Says We Shouldn’t Recycle Plastics
Sure we should recycle some things and equally certainly we shouldn’t recycle others. The trick is in knowing…
EU Tries Rampant Stupidity Over Single Use Plastics – Banning Them
The European Union Parliament has decided, in a fit of virtue signalling, to entirely fail Chesterton’s Fence. For…
The UN’s Erik Solheim Is Wrong – We Do Have Infinite Landfill Space For Plastic Wastes
One of the current passing fashions that mystifies is this demonisation of plastics. It’s simply very difficult to…
Cute Statistic – So Remote The Closest Humans Are On The Space Station
The Guardian tells us of Point Nemo, a place so remote that often enough the closest human beings…
What Is This Drivel About Australia Profiting From Recycling?
There’s something about recycling that stops brains from working. Recycling costs money – the sort we’re all urged…
Why The Heck Does Josh Frydenberg Want To Do More Plastics Recycling?
Those with a modicum of economic training will be hard put to understand this story out of Australia.…