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Corruption

Geroge Monbiot: Resist a US trade deal. Your life may depend on it

February 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Isn’t it convenient that people are poor. As Bertolt Brecht famously wrote: “First comes food, then morals”. If you are hungry, it matters little what you eat. The increasing poverty in Europe has raised the […]

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Climate Crisis

Positive Money – Escaping Growth Dependency

February 1, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This cannot continue. Governments are obsessed with growth, but the world’s resources are limited. What are the alternatives?     On 18th January 2018, Positive Money launched a new report which sets out why governments […]

Food Production

Nick Cohen: Saving the NHS means forcing us to change the way we lead our lives

January 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

High profits cause diseases.  Nowhere is this more true on modern diseases like obesity, which often results in diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and strokes. The free market is not going to solve this problem, it is […]

Climate Crisis

Climate Action Tracker: Reducing food waste and changing diet could drastically reduce agricultural emissions

January 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Energy is not the only way to decelerate climate change. Agriculture and our use of it can play a major role. Read here  

Economics

Transformation of Ecological Economics by Ove Jakobsen

January 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Svein Hammer There are those who still quibble, but most now recognise that our way of living has brought us to the edge of a cliff, where the threat of global crises […]

Environment

George Monbiot: Eating the Earth

January 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There will be no more meat in 2100. George Monbiot explains why that has to happen and will happen. Read here  

Food Production

George Monbiot: Mass starvation is humanity’s fate if we keep flogging the land to death

December 11, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Earth cannot accommodate our need and greed for food. We must change our diet before it’s too late Read here  

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Climate Crisis

George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown

October 20, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]

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Food Production

George Monbiot: Goodbye – and good riddance – to livestock farming

October 4, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

From The Guardian Livestock production is the single largest driver of habitat loss. Grazing livestock are a fully automated system for ecological destruction. Animal farming looks as incompatible with a sustained future for humans and […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

March 2, 2023 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

January 8, 2023 0

Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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