Professor Steve Keen and others warn that record heatwaves, floods, fires and intensifying storms halt commerce, damage crops, create uninsurable areas, and impair infrastructure. Pension funds rely too heavily on sanguine consultant forecasts and underestimate the financial impact of climate change on their portfolios
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Inequality and poverty
Here is another case of “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. A constant Gini coefficient (a statistical representation of the income or wealth distribution of a nation’s populace) does not necessarily mean poverty is not increasing, nor […]
Aviation
BBC: Coronavirus: Due to EU Airlines flying near-empty and empty planes
One sees why neo-liberalism is failing not only the environment but also the economy. Law to protect capitalism are all that count and that is what organisations like the EU are there for, to enforce […]
EU politics
Sebastian Friedrich – Germany’s Far Right Is at War With Itself
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland came second in the European elections, but fell short of expectations. Now its leadership is riven by conflicts both internal to the party and among the broader European far-right milieu. […]
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