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In the news over the last 7 days, time and time again
You may be fixating in the news at the moment on other things – and monstrous things are indeed at play – but here’s a reminder that climate change isn’t going away. And it’s not caused by DEI. During the CIHT CLIMATES initiative we’ve repeatedly prepared a slide called ‘In the news over the last… Read more
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The motivations and meaning behind climate action
If you are truly prepared to open your mind and read the following account with care, attention and reflection, I believe it will pull at your heart strings and wrench at your soul. You will come to understand why ‘love and gratitude’ and ‘love and rage’ sit at the heart of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. We… Read more
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Looking for the light in a dark age
This is a personal post in an awful week. Today my contribution to Local Transport Today’s 2025 ‘deep thinking’ initiative is published. I’m sorry to say fellow transport planners that it is a sobering take on our problems or predicament. It’s called ‘Looking for the light in a dark age’. When I started my transport… Read more
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The earth has all the time in the world and we don’t
“The Earth has all the time in the world and we don’t.” Three years ago next month I was sat in an office on Broadway in New York watching footage on my laptop of one of my heroes, Greta Thunberg, addressing up to 30,000 people in Bristol, the home of my university. It was the… Read more
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Restricting the right to protest – is revolution coming?
Yesterday in the UK new legislation came into force that restricts the ability to protest. The background is here; the announcement from yesterday is here. We will find out what this truly means in the weeks, months and years ahead. About a year ago I chaired a panel discussion involving respected professionals around the world… Read more
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Intergenerational insights on the future of transport
On 8 June 2023 the 16th event in the PTRC Fireside Chat series took place. You can watch it here. You can download the writeup below. What follows are 16 intergenerational insights on the future of transport & the transport profession: 💡 Gloria Steinem said “We need to remember across generations that there is as… Read more
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