Air pollution in London is appalling, sometimes at the level of Delhi. Speed up taking dirty taxis off the road Taxis, both black cabs and others, are major contributors to air pollution in London. A combination of changing the licensing rules and incentives can cut pollution in just a few years. Get dirty …
1. Encourage people to travel off-peak Our early bird fares policy, which cuts fares for people travelling before 7:30am rewards people for travelling earlier, and reduces overcrowding straight away. 2. Increase cycling I’ve campaigned for better cycling facilities in London for 25 years, and am a keen cyclist. I’d encourage London boroughs to copy …
Five things we can do to improve London transport Read More »
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Elephants are in a dramatic decline across Africa. So how do you save them? Should you simply shoot poachers on sight, as Kenya does? Or try and work with the communities where they live? Working as an environmental economist in the Namibian government, I got to test this at first hand. When we went out …
How liberalism meant 12,000 more Namibian elephants Read More »
While I was working in Namibia as a young aid worker, in the 1990s, the ordinary farmers of Namibia faced a problem. After having half of their land stolen under colonialism, the other half was rapidly being stolen by the post independence elite. Despite the fact that this government presented itself at the Marxist end …
