The UK Government finalised a deal last week to sell off the Green Investment Bank (GIB) to a consortium led by Australian bank, Macquarie – often called the millionaire factory because of their generous bonus and commission system. Macquarie have been involved in countless scandals regarding work practices, conflicts of interest, and purported…
Tag: Climate Change
Trees Are The Most Cost Effective Way To Fight The Effects Of Climate Change
Reforestation is often dismissed as a realistic way of fighting climate change, the scale of co-ordinated planning and resources required is considered to be much too large and almost impossible to achieve in a realistic time scale. In 2000, a special report on the effects of tree planting found that trees could remove around 1.1–1.6…
Why It’s The Perfect Time For A Carbon Tax In The UK
In 2010, David Cameron promised that his government was going to be the greenest government ever. Yet, since then, the Conservatives have pushed back on numerous environmental measures, including removing the subsidies for solar panel installation and putting a hold on all onshore wind-farm construction. The UK Government has committed to reducing UK…
How Can We Use Artificial Intelligence When We Can’t Handle Real Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence is no longer coming, it is here, and 2017 will see deep learning and AI technology applied across nearly every industry on the planet. It can be applied to study noise on bridges to look for failures or weak points, to help doctors detect cancer or tumours, or even help you…
