The UN’s Rio+20 Sustainable Development Conference is promising to be an entirely politicised, misguided event already hijacked by the eco-activists, certain to achieve nothing and cause great environmental destruction in the process. Cancel it!

At the time of my coming of age, those like me got hit with the AIDS crisis. This had a strong influence on how we look at the world, ourselves and each other. I am a member of Generation AIDS and as we are slowly taking over from the baby boomers as …

In my lectures on trust and risk management, I often start with the declaration: Man is a story-telling animal. We are not inherently rational beings, rarely ethically correct and usually quite vain about our role in the world. We rarely remember facts…

Last week, 16 eminent scientists signed an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal that acknowledged that the climate models are badly erroneous, that the world has not warmed anywhere near the amount predicted over the last two decades and that “…

What is sustainability? We have a lot of lofty definitions, hyperbole and weighty normative responsibilities tied to this concept, but what does it mean? In honour of Rio+20, coming in June 2012, the Risk-Monger thought this word should be more deeply …

The mobile phone industry is busier chasing profits than ensuring that their 4G technology is safe. The Risk-Monger laments that, as an industry abandons ALARA, regulators don’t seem too concerned.

There are many good reasons to be a vegetarian. So why then does the Risk-Monger still eat meat?

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) have the ability to take information, skew it with politically-biased invective, and deliver a fiction with such hostility and rudeness that only those with the thickest of skins would dare to stand up to them.  Most…

The Climate opportunists are showing up all over Durban for the COP 17 UNFCCC Climate Conference. Not only are there clopportunists from the environmental NGO world  … who have all found the budgets and the carbon offsetting to fly to South Afri…

Policymakers are developing a reflex to require that the research community determines the scientific consensus on certain issues, climate change and electro-magnetic fields being recent examples.  Should we be surprised that scientists are rarely abl…

This is electro-magnetic field week in the European Commission in Brussels. For risk analysts like the Risk-Monger, such a meeting of emotion-rich, evidence-poor debate on the science of EMFs is just like an early Christmas. I admire the Commission for…

The world did not celebrate the arrival of the seven billionth member of humanity. Rather, it shuddered. Seven billion mouths to feed with an unsustainable agriculture. Seven billion polluters crowding into impoverished cities. Seven billion violators …

Denmark has introduced a fat tax on foods high in saturated fat. It won’t work, sends the wrong message and hurts the poorer population. It is as politically incorrect as taxing fat people, which the Risk-Monger finds more workable.

If you care about the environment, don’t buy an electric car. I have just spent some time in the Great State of Michigan, and while the enthusiasm for electric cars there is palatable, the conversations I have had with people in the field have not be…

By September 1, the Risk Monger should have been dead. Chemicals have kept him from dying and now radioactive isotopes are helping to find a way to keep him living. During the time in and out of hospitals, I have been able to reflect on the benefits to…