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Giorgos Kallis – Limits, degrowth and environmental justice
On Malthus and limits, ideology of scarcity and power, degrowth, biopolitics and mal-adaptation.
Environment
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Paul Brown – Carbon capture and storage won’t work, critics say
Carbon capture and storage, trapping carbon before it enters the atmosphere, is crucial in all the mainstream plans for countering climate change. Just one problem: it does not work. Paul Brown, a founding editor of […]
Climate Crisis
Andrew Simms- Economic Prospects for 2021
Economic growth? “No. But it’s not about size, it’s about quality.” Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and campaigner and is a member of the New Weather Institute Cross-posted from the website of the New […]
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Giorgos Kallis – The Case for Degrowth
The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless […]
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Steve Keen – A 2020 Retrospective: Looking Back in Foresight
Pretty much sums 2020 up Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security, UCL Cross-posted from Steve’s website I made the macabre joke at the end of my post on […]
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Chloe Brimicombe, Elliott Sainsbury, Gabrielle Powell, Wilson Chan – Overshadowed by COVID: the deadly extreme weather of 2020
Chloe Brimicombe, University of Reading; Elliott Sainsbury, University of Reading; Gabrielle Powell, University of Reading, and Wilson Chan, University of Reading The year 2020 will no doubt go down in history for other reasons, but […]
Corruption
Marie Toussaint – Ecocide: Towards International Recognition
The fight to have ecocide recognised as a crime against humanity in both international and national law has spanned multiple decades. During this time, countless crimes against ecosystems and their inhabitants – human and animal […]
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: ‘EU, Stop soy becoming the new palm oil!’
The EU is encouraging forest destruction in the Amazon and Latin America through its biofuels policy, a new study has found. T&E says the findings mean a change to EU biofuels policy is now a […]
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Susan Paulson and Jason Hickel – “Everything you wanted to know about Degrowth (But didn’t know who to ask).”
This is our podcast from 9 December 2020
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Agricultural and Rural Convention – The Common Agriculture Policy and Sustainable Farming: A statement by scientists
40 scientific experts have come together today to release a paper on the role CAP plays in trying to make farming sustainable. Below we republish the summary of this paper, and provide a link to […]