29/09/2026
Humanity’s attempts to protect nature have often produced new forms of environmental harm, a pattern scholars have described as environmental ‘paradoxes’ or ‘perverse outcomes.’ This blog explores how good intentions, partial knowledge, and industrial-scale solutions have repeatedly turned environmental protection into a driver of environmental harm.
Over the last century, many technologies and policies have been justified as ways to protect nature while simultaneously modernising society. But is this always true? Or do some ‘solutions’ often shift, disguise, or even amplify environmental harm rather than reduce it? From packaging to energy,...
