We face a double crisis as the twenty-first century unfolds. On the one hand, it is an ecological crisis: climate change and several other Earth System pressures are exceeding planetary boundaries to a dangerous extent. On the other hand, it is also a social crisis: several billion people are deprived of access to basic goods and services. More than 40 percent of the human population cannot afford nutritious food; 50 percent do not have safely managed sanitation facilities; 70 percent do not have necessary health care.
Economics
Wyn Grant, Alan Greer: How has UK agricultural policy changed since Brexit?
Processes of de-Europeanisation in the British agricultural sector have been uneven following the UK’s exit from the EU, with significant divergence in some areas and continuity in others. Read HERE Des Blenkinsopp/Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Covid-specific inflationary pressures are dominant and are transitory
“I am maintaining my view that the current inflationary spikes are being driven by the total abnormal circumstances the world has found itself in as a result of the pandemic.” Read Here
Geopolitics
Thomas Fazi: The three big NATO myths
A new book by German MP Sevim Dağdelen shatters NATO’s biggest myths: why the Alliance has nothing to do with defence, democracy or human rights Read HERE
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