Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell – Corona Crisis: The advanced nations should take the lead of Pakistan in job creation
Bill Mitchell on the Job Guarantee. Read here
Climate Crisis
Aviation
Business Traveller: Air France told not to compete with the TGV
This is something that should be happening everywhere in Europe. But not only cutting back flights, but all domestic flights.. Read here
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – After Corona, the new normal
In some parts of the world politicians, investors, business leaders and economists are behaving as though the Corona virus is almost eradicated. There are talks of easing up on restrictions, even though it’s only through […]
Climate Crisis
Grist: The world is on lockdown. So where are all the carbon emissions coming from?
Wait, what? Even with the global economy at a near-standstill, the best analysis suggests that the world is still on track to release 95 percent of the carbon dioxide emitted in a typical year, continuing […]
Climate Crisis
Jonathan Marshall – Low Oil Price could be a Boon for Net Zero
Cheap oil has always been a problem for renewable energy. This time maybe not. Jonathan Marshall is Head of Analysis at the Energy &Climate Intelligence Unit Cross-posted from the ECIU website Historically, sustained low fossil […]
Aviation
Sven Giegold – Lobbyists are Trying to Water Down a Sustainable Way out of the Corona Crisis
Sven Giegold warns that the Coronavirus pandemic has been used as a pretext by powerful lobbies to weaken and delay a European Green Deal. Sven Giegold is a German Green MEP Cross-posted from Source Picture […]
Climate Crisis
Manifesto for a More Sustainable and Fairer Netherlands after Corona
We can make the Netherlands radically more sustainable and fair: five proposals for the Netherlands after Corona, signed by 170 academics. COVID-19 shakes the world to its foundations. The corona pandemic has already cost and […]
Climate Crisis
Wolfgang Knorr – The Age of Stability is Over, and Coronavirus is just the Beginning
Troutnut / shutterstock Wolfgang Knorr, Lund University Humanity has only recently become accustomed to a stable climate. For most of its history, long ice ages punctuated with hot spells alternated with short warm periods. Transitions […]
Austerity
The MMT Podcast: Steve Keen – Coronavirus vs The World
Christian and Patricia talk to award-winning economist and author Professor Steve Keen about the global response to the coronavirus pandemic and the multiple ways in which mainstream economic thinking continues to prove itself dangerously inadequate […]
Climate Crisis
Robin McAlpine: After this Crisis, our Lives and Economy can be Better – If We have Principles
This is the direction we should be thinking in. What comes after? If we do not know, it will be the same old neo-liberalism. An important weekend read. Robin McAlpine is the director of the […]