Music Declares Emergency: Artists and executives demand drastic climate action

High profile artists such as Radiohead, Tom Odell, Chrissie Hynde, and Suede have banded together with industry executives to declare a 'climate emergency'.

Figures from across the music industry have come together to form a new pressure group to demand drastic action to combat the climate emergency.

Called Music Declares Emergency, members of the new group include globally famous artists such as Radiohead, Suede, Chrissie Hynde, and Bonobo, alongside executives at organisations such as Abbey Road, Warner Music, Sony Music, and Domino.

Read the story from Business Green by Toby Hill - “Music Declares Emergency: Artists and executives demand drastic climate action.”

On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming

It was a typical November day in New York City. The year: 1959. Robert Dunlop, 50 years old and photographed later as clean-shaven, hair carefully parted, his earnest face donning horn-rimmed glasses, passed under the Ionian columns of Columbia University’s iconic Low Library. He was a guest of honor for a grand occasion: the centennial of the American oil industry. 

Physicist Edward Teller pointing at a formula on a blackboard on 22 May 1968.

Over 300 government officials, economists, historians, scientists, and industry executives were present for the Energy and Man symposium – organized by the American Petroleum Institute and the Columbia Graduate School of Business – and Dunlop was to address the entire congregation on the “prime mover” of the last century – energy – and its major source: oil. As President of the Sun Oil Company, he knew the business well, and as a director of the American Petroleum Institute – the industry’s largest and oldest trade association in the land of Uncle Sam – he was responsible for representing the interests of all those many oilmen gathered around him.

Read the The Guardian US story by Benjamin Franta - “On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming.”