Global Environmental Society

The difficulty of recycling computer systems and other electronics has turned out to be a scorching laptop topic. What can we do to ensure our old home computers don't end up polluting the planet.

Organic produce nestles on every supermarket shelf these days next to its non-organic counterparts. Have you ever considered what the true benefits of buying organic are? Or what organic farming is all about?

Of the many ways considered by the Western governments to fight climate change, perhaps the most troublesome is raising a tariff wall in the name of clean environment. One month after France and Italy called for implementation of a carbon tax at European borders, two US senators unveiled the American Power Act, which would arm the United States with the same adjustment mechanism.

Is the inability of the developed countries to come to a resolve on climate change a contravention of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples since it impacts upon their lands and way of life? Has the time come for the developing countries to take over?

The least popular debate in environmental history rears its thorny head. It is the discussion that no one wants to have, a topic that excites the fevered imaginations of science fiction writers and paranoiacs, but which politicians and the press tend to avoid like smallpox.

Widely loved wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough threw his hat into the ring, in April of this year, by becoming a patron of the Optimum Population trust. In doing so he becomes the latest in a long line of notable individuals concerned about the impact of human numbers on the global ecosystem.