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Posts tagged "economics"

The killer question is: can we really afford fossil fuels?

Aug 30, 2022

In our high-carbon economy, everything is dictated by the cost of oil and gas. From an economic point of view, this was fine and dandy...

Book Review: Value(s) by Mark Carney

Aug 4, 2021

When appointed Governor of the Bank of England in 2013, Mark Carney was described as the Rock Star of Bankers. Well, in Value(s), Carney has...

Why only green capitalism can save the planet

Oct 11, 2019

One of the great pervading myths of the climate debate is that climate change is being driven solely by global capitalism/consumerism/neoliberalism and that only some...

Economic growth in a finite world – not as daft as it sounds

Jul 22, 2019

One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg,  is "you can't have economic growth in...

The costs of ‘do nothing’ on climate

Jun 10, 2019

There's been a minor ding-dong in the UK with a leaked report from Chancellor Philip Hammond warning the 'cost' of meeting a proposed 'net zero'...

Nature ain’t cuddly and neither should we be

Jun 3, 2019

First day back in the saddle after our traditional half-term camping trip to Wooler, Northumberland. We tried to shake up the itinerary this year –...

Waste is a massive economic loss

Feb 27, 2019

I was very taken with this Edie news story about plastic pollution which quotes the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's estimate that $80-120 billion's worth of plastic...

Book Review: Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

May 24, 2018

I haven't reviewed many Sustainability books on here of late, mainly because the few I have read recently have been terrible, some to the point...

Milton Friedman was not only wrong on CSR, but dangerously wrong

Nov 6, 2015

The continued fall out from the VW scandal has made me mull on the risks of ignoring corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the favour of...

Digging an ethical hole…

Sep 4, 2015

Interesting example from Daniel Kahneman's excellent psychology book, Thinking, Fast & Slow: A hardware store has been selling snow shovels for $15. The morning after...

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