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Steve Keen – A 2020 Retrospective: Looking Back in Foresight

December 31, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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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Susan Paulson and Jason Hickel – “Everything you wanted to know about Degrowth (But didn’t know who to ask).”

December 18, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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

December 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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The Case for Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria

December 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose “Forlorn Hope” was a British military term from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century for a group of soldiers chosen to take an extremely hazardous role in a military […]

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Climate Analytics: Climate Transparency Report 2020: Country Profiles

November 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Do have a look at the EU and the four largest European economies. Interesting is that Germany, which parades itself as a leader in fighting the climate  crisis has the worst ratings. Read here

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Colin Todhunter- Ukraine: Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’

November 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ukraine appears to be a lost cause. It now belongs to international corporations with a political elite that can be described as Third World (the term is being used figuratively). This is definitely an EU […]

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Tim Radford – Mixed Farming Beats Intensive Agriculture Methods

November 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

It sounds like the conservationist’s dream. But a return to traditional mixed farming ways could pay off for farmers too. Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]

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Mat Hope – Pesticide companies are Climate-Washing their Brands

November 17, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Agribusiness is trying to spin itself some eco-credentials, to stop governments from regulating it. Mat Hope is editor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from Open Democracy If the current home page of pesticide giant Syngenta is […]

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France 24: Thousands of climate activists appeal to Brussels to withdraw farm policy

October 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Thousands of climate activists have added their names to a new campaign spearheaded by Greta Thunberg, asking the European Commission to retract a farming policy that they say would make it impossible to reach the […]

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DW: European top court upholds French ban on bee-harming pesticides

October 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

As we can again see, give lobbyists and corporations enough tie and funds to bribe EU politicians, any law can be changed, even if confirmed in courts. Read Here

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This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by Will Davies

January 9, 2021 0

Book Review by Sean Kippin There is a particular brand of UK media figure. Usually male, they revel in the gossip, intrigue and parlour games of British politics. Policy seems to bore them. Economic policy is […]

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The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

December 14, 2020 0

Book Review by Toni Strubell Sue Crampton’s “The Call of Catalonia”, apart from being a good read, is a book that will be useful to those wondering what the recent kerfuffle was about with the […]

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