In the last couple of months, our streets were empty and our cities quiet. Behind this seeming tranquility, there has been a storm raging through our values and structures.
In a conversation recorded before the Covid-19 crisis hit, which is raising many questions about the responsible use by policy makers of scientific advice, SGR’s Andrew Simms interviews the leading voice on climate science, Prof Kevin Anderson of the Universities of Manchester and Uppsala, about the responsibilities of scientists in the climate emergency. He is outspoken in saying that the scientific community has much to do to change its ways.
Carlton Reid Aug 2, 2020, The far-right Twitter user “polNewsNetwork1” shared an innocuous photo in 2017 taken by a New York City subway rider of a drag queen and a woman in a niqab, chirping: “This is the future that liberals want.”
Frustrated drivers who use short cuts off the main roads during rush hours are increasing journey times for everybody else, researchers have found. And they suggest that persuading drivers to give up their short cuts could cut time wasted in congestion for other drivers by almost a third.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to tell overweight Britons they need to increase their activity levels to better fight against infection from the novel coronavirus. Being obese or overweight puts people at greater risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, experts have said this week. Cycling to work is a key way of losing weight and changing sedentary lifestyles, Johnson will advise on Monday.
Residents will get powers to banish through-traffic from local streets and councils will be prevented from building substandard cycle lanes under what Downing Street has billed as a revolution for cycling and walking in England.
