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Tom Chivers

Tom Chivers is an award-winning science writer and journalist. He has previously worked for The Telegraph and Buzzfeed and his first book, The Rationalists: AI and the geeks who want to save the world, will be published in 2019.

Articles by Tom Chivers

Infrastructure

Outcompeted: Are renewables riding to the rescue just in time?

Tom Chivers reflects on how a revolution in the energy industry means the profit motive might yet help avert catastrophic climate change

clock 22 January 2019 • 3 min read

Climate change

Forget what you think you know about American attitudes to climate action

Tom Chivers reflects on new polling that suggests the average American consumer is concerned about climate change, whatever President Trump says to the contrary - and corporate leaders are responding

clock 13 December 2018 • 4 min read

Waste

The straw ban that broke the public indifference?

It may be a case of gesture politics, argues Tom Chivers, but a ban on plastic straws is part of a trend that is helping to unlock wider change

clock 31 October 2018 • 4 min read

Recycling

Future Jobs: How recyclers are seizing circular opportunities

Tom Chivers talks to Veolia's Richard Kirkman about the 'cultural shift' that has reshaped the waste industry and sparked the development of thousands of high tech green roles

clock 18 October 2018 • 5 min read

Skills

Future Jobs: From beavers to Brexit, conservationists are critical

Mark Elliott explains how a role caring for one of the UK's only beaver families highlights the growing opportunities the conservation sector can offer

clock 15 October 2018 • 5 min read

Efficiency

Is a very low energy economy something to aspire to?

Tom Chivers explores how the link between economic growth and rising energy use has broken - and what it means fora modern, service-oriented economy

clock 18 September 2018 • 4 min read

Risk

On glyphosate, bad science, and precautionary principles

Tom Chivers reckons the case for a crackdown on glyphosates is remarkably weak, but it is still a good thing that it is being presented

clock 15 August 2018 • 4 min read

Politics

Scott Pruitt has gone - for all the wrong reasons

Tom Chivers argues that despite the federal government's corruption and incompetence, there are still reasons to hope the US can drive global climate action

clock 11 July 2018 • 4 min read

Policy

On iron laws, CCS, and Carbon XPrizes

If carbon capture technologies are to ever take off they will need to become economic, but, as Tom Chivers, argues a new cash prize could yet unlock a whole new industry

clock 12 June 2018 • 4 min read

Waste

Are we really on track to end up with more plastic in the ocean than fish?

Tom Chivers wonders if a combination of dubious maths and R&D breakthroughs could counter the most apocalyptic plastic waste predictions

clock 15 May 2018 • 4 min read
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