The McKinsey Global Institute has produced a new report on wealth. I have not read all the detail as yet – but strongly suspect I
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COP 26 failed. We need not. But w have to get on with beating the forces that want to kill life in earth. Time is not our side.
I admit that I have been struggling to find appropriate words to write since it became apparent that COP26 really would not deliver anything like
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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What will make the neoclassical economist realise that there is something more important than market equilibria, and that is life itself?
Chris Giles said this in the FT this morning: Here is a simple question. Has the UK economy already recovered all of the ground lost
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The great success of the Green New Deal is in getting people to believe in it
Aditya Chakrabortty had this to say about an article he wrote for the Guardian yesterday: The column that will probably lose me the most friends:
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Greenwash will not do: proper accounting for the impact of the climate crisis is what we need now
This is an FT headline this morning: The article makes three things clear. The first is that business feels good about itself. The second is
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Are the big car companies the capitalist dinosaurs whose time has come if we are to beat climate change?
As the FT notes this morning: [D]espite months of pressure by the UK, four of the world’s five largest carmakers — Volkswagen, Toyota, the Renault-Nissan
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QE can be used to beat climate change
This is a phenomenally powerful speech from the Prime Minister of Barbados at COP 26. She says the world could use quantitative easing to beat
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