Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

environment

Turning children into Orwellian eco-spies
spiked, 15 December 2009
Frank Furedi recalls being educated through fear in Stalinist Hungary, and is disturbed that the same tactics are now used by environmentalists.

We don’t need another conspiracy theory
spiked, 24 November 2009
The sceptics poring over those ‘Climategate’ emails are indulging in easy conspiracy-mongering rather than having a tough, grown-up debate.

Elevating environmentalism over ‘less worthy’ lifestyles
spiked, 9 November 2009
The legal ruling that a belief in climate change is similar to a religious conviction seriously damages science, philosophy and democracy.

Energising the debate about climate change
spiked, 20 March 2009
Energise! eschews the misanthropic green ideology of restraint and explains how human action can solve a human-made problem.

Eco-priests, repent of your green folly
The Australian, 26 February 2009
Just when you think that sin has gone out of fashion, you discover it has made an unexpected comeback.

The greening of capitalism
spiked, 29 February 2008
A striking new essay exposes the pretensions of ethical consumers and explores the emergence of a seemingly green economy. But in claiming that canny capitalists have ‘manufactured scarcity’, it risks reading history backwards.

Really Bad Ideas: the tyranny of science
spiked, 15 January 2008
Scientific evidence is being repackaged as ‘The Science’: a superstitious dogma used to hector us on everything from sex to saving the planet.

From Finland to west London: a culture of death?
spiked, 12 November 2007
The Finnish school shooter and Britain’s ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ seem worlds apart. Yet both are products of the globalisation of misanthropy.

Finnish school shooting: self-loathing goes global
spiked, 8 November 2007
In declaring ‘war against humanity’, might 18-year-old Pekka-Eric Auvinen have been doing his bit to save the planet?

And the Nobel Fear Prize goes to…
spiked, 15 October 2007
Al Gore, scaremonger-in-chief of the green lobby, is a fitting winner of a prize that's long mistaken fear-makers for peacemakers.

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