Alice Bell
Alice Bell is co-director of the climate charity Possible and author of Can We Save the Planet? (Thames and Hudson, 2020). Her book on the history of the climate crisis, Our Biggest Experiment, will be published by Bloomsbury this summer.
Articles by Alice Bell
Dystopia by degrees
As the climate crisis deepens, so will the battle over how to tackle it. Should we expect an increase in violence?
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Blood carbon
The industrial revolution led to great progress, but it was fuelled by global injustice.
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A molecular affair
How did carbon dioxide go from a 19th-century health fad to planet-destroying pariah?
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The city and the sublime
Today, are we more awestruck by our own scientific and technological achievements than by the glory of nature?
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A scientist’s job is to question our assumptions about the world, not unthinkingly repeat them
If the "reality" of your event is that you haven't invited any women, then address the failing, writes Alice Bell
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