Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com In the Wizard of Oz, a satire of the 1930’s Great American Plains dustbowl disaster, Dorothy is swept away from Kansas to the wonderful Emerald City. The Emerald City represents New York City an escape from the nightmare. In the fairy tale Dorothy’s homesick wish is to go home … Continue reading Wheat fantasies – Here we go Again…..
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Why is the UK building more nuclear plants?
Photo by Johannes Plenio on Pexels.com In a time of climate crisis, why is the UK building more nuclear power plants and not focusing on building Renewable plants instead? This is going against the trend in Europe to phase out nuclear power stations. 20% of electricity is still generated by nuclear reactors in the … Continue reading Why is the UK building more nuclear plants?
Voting Green in the UK Should Count
Photo by Luis del Ru00edo on Pexels.com The UK has just one Green Party MP out of 650 MPs, this compares to Germany who have 67 Green representatives out of 709 seats in the Budestag. When you tell someone in the UK that you are thinking of voting Green, the standard response is ‘it’s a … Continue reading Voting Green in the UK Should Count
Iceland – How to Build back Better
Photo by Simon Migaj on Pexels.com Iceland suffered an economic crash in 2007 with GDP falling nearly 40% between 2007 and 2009. Iceland has since recovered all the lost growth and more, by allowing the broken old economy to fail and rebuilding a sustainable green economy. With the current state of world economies, Iceland provides … Continue reading Iceland – How to Build back Better
Time for Australia to Change Economic Strategy
Climate Change has hit Australia directly through the fires, now its time for Australia to move to a sustainable low emission economy that is not reliant on fossil fuels. The focus of the change should be reflected from moving away from GDP to a more sustainable measurement such as Living Standards or GPI
GDP growth forever is unsustainable
What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity use of resources - what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. Only one of these sets of rules can be changed and its not the laws of nature
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