Author: Rupert Ferguson

A lineal descendant of Captain Robert Ferguson (1719-1799) the older brother of the great Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher and historian Adam Ferguson (1723-1816); the friend of Hume, Gibbon and Adam Smith. Also related to the great feminist author and playwright Rachel Ferguson. Have written extensively on a vast range of subjects, been published in print as book author and in various journals and magazines into the bargain. Early work as an underground film maker on the early Goa Trance and radical anti-CJB political scene in the 1990s has since become more refined and ambitious and I have since been a regular contributor to such high profile events as the Portobello Film Festival Annual Film Maker's Convention.....

Voices from the Hive 6

Welcome to Voices from the Hive 6, the first of my Eco Intelligence newsletters of 2020. While we’ve all been away on holiday the stories covered in the run up to Christmas and the New Year have been developing slowly, and the issues that they raise becoming ever more serious, in spite of the mainstream media’s continual attempts to distract us from the real issues at the heart of the Ecological Crisis and the Climate Emergency.

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Welcome to Voices from the Hive 5- the fifth instalment of the Eco Intelligence Newsletter for the Age of Extinction Rebellion! This week’s big story revolves around the latest developments Stateside, where Energy Transport Solutions, a subsidiary of fossil fuel giant New Fortress Energy, has just been granted a special permit to transport large quantities of highly unstable liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from the Pennsylvania shale fields to New Jersey as part of its international fossil fuel exports program.

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This week’s newsletter is slightly later than usual due to the huge amount of data and stats that have been rolling in following Thursday’s UK Election. The big political and environmental story of this week was of course the re-election of another toxic Tory government in the United Kingdom.

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As Extinction Rebellion UK’s Election Rebellion continues, with XR activists disguised as angry bees confronting Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson or glueing themselves to the Brexit Party’s Battle Bus, the big battle across the Pond in New England has erupted around the site of the Weymouth Compressor Station where construction has started on the Algonquin Gas Transmission pipeline network.

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As children in over a thousand towns take part in a series of coordinated Climate Strikes across the UK, the exact nature and extent of the Climate and Ecological Crisis is still largely a mystery to large swathes of the adult British population, in spite of the fact that many of their children and grandchildren are way ahead of the game on this.

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The past two weeks have seen major floods in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe, bringing home to those in the Developed World that the impacts of Climate Change are not just confined to the Global South, and are likely to be an ever worsening trend if drastic steps are not taken to move towards full decarbonization