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Are Environmentalists No Wiser than Monkeys Reaching for the Moon?

Posted on 08/03/2021 by Bob Thomson

A fairy tale comparing monkeys cooperating to get the moon out of a lake to environmentalists pursuing a consumer economy based on renewable energy – blanketing the Earth with solar panels and wind turbines – reaching for the mere illusion … Continue reading →

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Fossil Fuel Pollution Kills Eight Million a Year

Posted on 01/03/2021 by Bob Thomson

On Feb. 9, the journal Environmental Research published a study conducted by three British universities and Harvard, titled “Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Result from GEOS-Chem.” While it seems like just another research … Continue reading →

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Degrowth Conferences in 2020 & 2021 – helpful info and links from degrowth.info

Posted on 22/02/2021 by Bob Thomson

The rhythm of the international degrowth gatherings and discussions in 2020 and 2021 adapted and adapts to present circumstances. The <degrowth.info> web site has provided some useful links here to past and upcoming gatherings and discussions. In 2021, compatibly with … Continue reading →

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Wisdom from the oil fields?

Posted on 07/02/2021 by Bob Thomson

It isn’t often I find somewhat enlightening articles in the NYT, but this one struck me as worth the “long” read (3000 words). Smith’s outline of the history and dangers of our fossil fuel dependency is useful, but so is … Continue reading →

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Investigative documentary sheds a light on the World Bank’s role in helping ExxonMobil exploit one of the biggest fossil fuel discoveries of our time.

Posted on 16/01/2021 by Bob Thomson

Berlin, Washington D.C. | October 16th 2020 As the World Bank conducts its Annual Meeting, an investigative documentary sheds a light on the Bank’s role in helping ExxonMobil exploit one of the biggest fossil fuel discoveries of our time. [Canadian … Continue reading →

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Guardian: Could covid degrowth have helped save the planet?

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Bob Thomson

Slowdown of human activity was too short to reverse years of destruction, but we saw a glimpse of post-fossil fuel world. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/29/could-covid-lockdown-have-helped-save-the-planet?utm_term=8e65cf71ab81da53711a2aa69b324337&utm_campaign=GreenLight&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=greenlight_email

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The Transition to a Post-Capitalist World

Posted on 03/01/2021 by Bob Thomson

Bob Thomson, April 10, 2017 An exciting new paradigm of transition to a post-capitalist world is unfolding in the forms of platform cooperativism, open source peer to peer manufacturing, agricultural and production technologies and convivial degrowth. It proposes a reduction … Continue reading →

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Are humans in a swarm stage of development?

Posted on 07/12/2020 by Bob Thomson

We’re in an outbreak currently. But we don’t mean the COVID pandemic. It turns out that outbreak has a second definition: it means when populations grow dramatically large, beyond their carrying capacities. As David Quammen details in his book Spillover, … Continue reading →

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Reuters NEXT: Capitalism plans a post Covid future

Posted on 30/11/2020 by Bob Thomson

Sorry to bother those of you who may have received several notices of this post to the web site. I have tried to just send a link to the Reuters web page, but for some reason the link will not … Continue reading →

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Discrimination and Bias in Economics, and Emerging Responses

Posted on 24/11/2020 by Bob Thomson

I thought followers of this site would find this post interesting. Bob Opening the Miami Institute’s economics forum, Jayati Ghosh presents severe and persistent forms of discrimination and power imbalances in economic analyses, and underscores older and newer networks of … Continue reading →

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