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Corruption, resources, climate and systemic risk
Corruption, resources, climate and systemic risk Corruption is a loaded word. One person’s corruption is another’s sound social policy. Some people believe providing unemployment benefits to laid-off workers corrupts them by making them “lazy.” Many others think such benefits are sound social policy in an economic system that is prone to major cyclical ups and […]
Warming means unfair share for poor
Warming means unfair share for poor A bumper catch off the coast of northern Norway may be bad news for fishermen in southern waters. Image: Bo Eide via Flickr As temperatures rise with climate change, the Earth’s natural capital will change too − but there may be few winners, even among the wealthy. LONDON, 5 March, 2016 – Climate […]
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth
Scientists calculate our debt to the Earth Wheat crops on the Kansas High Plains in the US depend on aquifer water. Image: James Watkins via Flickr Researchers in the US have found a way to put a monetary value on the multitude of vital services and assets we rely on nature to provide us cost-free. LONDON, 24 […]
Splendid Isolation: A Sane Foreign Policy For America
Splendid Isolation: A Sane Foreign Policy For America A proper foreign policy for the US would be consistent with and recognize the limitations placed upon our country by the physical world in which we live. First of all it would recognize that all countries, including the US, have limited resources. These resources are provided by […]
Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices
Nicole Foss presents: Challenge and Choices Nicole Foss: After more than 30 years of exponential growth, gargantuan resource demand and increasingly frenetic consumption, we have now reached, or are reaching, an array of limits to growth. During our long, debt-fuelled boom, we reached out spatially through globalisation to monetise as much global production as possible, in […]
Riyadh Feels the Pinch: The True Cost of Saudi Subsidies
Riyadh Feels the Pinch: The True Cost of Saudi Subsidies In downtown Riyadh, SUV-populated intersections and lushly landscaped parks leave little indication that Saudi Arabia is rapidly depleting its oil and water resources. The Saudi predilection for gas-guzzling vehicles and water-intensive leisure spaces is hardly surprising- governmental subsidies have long obscured the true cost of […]
Carving up the Middle East
Carving up the Middle East QUESTION: Why did ISIS target France rather than Germany? Someone said it was France who created Syria. Is that really true? ANSWER: Germany is not actually a target in this chess game. It is one reason we selected Berlin for our conferences even compared to London since we had Panic […]
Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists
Time Is Running Out For Pax Americana’s Apologists The paradox of the current global crisis is that for the last five years, all relatively responsible and independent nations have made tremendous efforts to save the United States from the financial, economic, military, and politicaldisaster that looms ahead. And this is all despite Washington’s equally systematic moves to destabilize […]
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’
Analyst Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’ Some of the world’s biggest investors have been taking significant positions in the commodity resource sector as of late, most notably in gold. With geopolitical tension and fear of economic breakdown reaching a near boiling point, it’s not difficult to see why. […]
Highly Respected Economist Warns: “Hyperinflation Is On The Table… It Will Be Completely Uncontrollable”
Highly Respected Economist Warns: “Hyperinflation Is On The Table… It Will Be Completely Uncontrollable” Thibaut Lepouttre is a highly educated and well respected economist from Belgium. But unlike many of his counterparts who often toe the line of mainstream politicians and financial pundits, he’s not one to sugarcoat the seriousness of the current global economic, […]
Appropriate Scarcity
Appropriate Scarcity … appealing to people to restrain themselves [by] self-enforced abstinence alone is a waste of time. By and large, we consume as much as our incomes allow…. changes… cannot take place without constraints that apply to everyone rather than everyone else. Manmade global warming cannot be restrained unless we persuade the government […]
How Modern Life Destroys Survival Instinct
How Modern Life Destroys Survival Instinct Our world today would seem magical to our ancestors. Our needs are met almost immediately, we have clean water at the turn of a knob, heat at the push of a button, and light with the flip of a switch. Food is purchased in a box, ready to heat, […]
China Threatens The U.S., Says Will “Not Tolerate Violations Of Its Territorial Waters”
China Threatens The U.S., Says Will “Not Tolerate Violations Of Its Territorial Waters” While the geopolitical posturing between the US and China over the South China Seas is nothing new, the latest and most dramatic installment started just one month ago, when as part of its celebration to commemorate the successful victory over Japan in […]
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources
Kurt Cobb: Money Cannot Manufacture Resources Disproving the fatal assumption central planners make Author Kurt Cobb writes frequently on energy and the environment and warns that our current economic policy suffers from a fatal degree of magical thinking: sufficient new resources will emerge if the price is high enough. As any fourth grader will tell you, […]
