I was in a meeting a little while ago when someone asked “can we really make scenarios of the future when the present is so uncertain?” It’s a question I’ve…
Author: Jonathan Blanchard Smith
Can We Really Eliminate Fossil Fuels?
Our climate crisis series has identified the issues the world will face as it copes with rising temperatures, and the concomitant crises of extreme weather, sea level rise, radical and…
Planning for climate change: lessons from the US Army War College
There are problems with getting to grips with climate change. The remoteness of the data, and of those people who generate it, makes quick and easy understanding quite difficult. There…
How UK is adapting to the New Energy Future
Throughout the year, the Natural Resources Forum a leading independent think-tank for the resources sector, holds forums and breakfast seminars at the London Stock Exchange. These seminars bring together senior…
Radical Visions of Future Government
There is something wrong with government. The UK has been paralysed by a single political issue for some four years; there are moves to impeach the US president; the EU…
Space hotels and Androids: Samsung’s KX50 project
Foresight is a difficult subject. Scenarios should be grounded in fact, drawing the lessons of today and yesterday out into the future in ways which are genuinely useful and thought-provoking.…