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.
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The IMF is all at sea, stuck in its ways, and sending conflicting signals
This has been going on for a couple of years now and seems to be increasing: the IMF presents enlightened policy papers and its leaders make progressive sounds – but all remains the same. Read […]
National Politics
Thomas Fazi: Manufacturing democracy – Romania’s managed election
Even assuming the voting process itself were flawless, the election was “rigged” from the moment the November results were annulled and leading candidate Georgescu was barred from running Read HERE Călin Georgescu Photo: Focus Crestin/Creative […]
Finance
Rutger Bregman: Society’s biggest freeloaders are at the top
This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times: We are living in an inverse welfare state. The people getting the biggest handouts are not down around the bottom, but at the […]
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