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Anatomy of Melancholia

Tom Streithorst
/ September 29, 2011 / Leave a comment

Lars von Trier calls Melancholia a “rom com” but I don’t think anybody else would since the movie opens (and closes) with the obliteration of the entire planet. “No more happy endings,” the dour Dane proclaims. But despite a wedding reception from hell and a beautiful and brilliant depiction of...
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Prospect recommends: art

Emma Crichton-Miller
/ September 26, 2010 / Leave a comment

Gauguin: Maker of Myth Tate Modern It was the financial crisis of 1882-83 that propelled Paul Gauguin out of his job as a stockbroker and into full-time pursuit of art. He chased his muse—abandoning his wife and five children—from France to Copenhagen, from Panama to Martinique, and from Brittany to...
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Will China clean up its act?

Jonathon Porritt
/ January 27, 2010 / Leave a comment

China has paid a high price for its rapid economic growth. But can the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases now lead a global green industrial revolution?
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Final Copenhagen wrap-up: don’t blame China

Damian Kahya
/ December 24, 2009 / Leave a comment

With Christmas upon us, the dust has settled on Copenhagen. And as Prospect editor David Goodhart posted yesterday, the settled view is becoming: blame China. Mark Lynas wrote an especially coruscating piece about it in the Guardian yesterday—a piece with which their editor agreed so strongly that he used his...
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Copenhagen: not a failure

David Goodhart
/ December 23, 2009 / 6 Comments

Copenhagen is being called a failure, with various candidates blamed. Naomi Klein says it was Obama’s fault. Mark Lynas today is blaming the Chinese. But the conference wasn’t a failure. Or it was only so when measured against unrealistic expectations. As Tony Brenton pointed out in the FT (letters, December...
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Fixing the climate

Oliver Morton
/ December 16, 2009 / 6 Comments

Technological schemes to combat global warming are viewed as wacky or impractical. But they belong in the mainstream debate on climate change
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The Bank’s green future

David King
/ December 15, 2009 / 2 Comments

Alistair Darling is getting it wrong on climate change. Now scientists must shape monetary policy
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How not to take on climate change deniers

Gregory Norminton
/ October 21, 2009 / 40 Comments

When asked to debate global warming at St Andrews, I was delighted. Unfortunately, my opponents turned me into a bug-eyed fanatic
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Does the Copenhagen conference matter?

Various
/ October 21, 2009 / 4 Comments

James Lovelock, Bjorn Lomborg, Zac Goldsmith and other scientists, politicians and negotiators argue about why the climate change summit is important
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Editorial

David Goodhart
/ October 21, 2009 / 1 Comment

National interests and global justice at Copenhagen
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