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Why a Green Upheaval is Set to Leave Workers Behind
Copied from the Imagine Newsletter 31 January 2024 Tata Steel, the largest private-sector employer in deprived south Wales town Port Talbot, will cut 2,800 jobs by closing its last two coal-powered blast furnaces. Instead, the steelworks will invest in an electric arc furnace that can run on renewable power but at the cost of fewer…
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The Next Global War.
26th January 2024 Today’s Round-Up of Economic News “The Next Global War. How today’s regional conflicts resemble the ones that produced World War II… “World War II began as a trio of loosely connected contests for primacy in key regions stretching from Europe to the Asia-Pacific—contests that eventually climaxed and coalesced in globally consuming ways.…
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An Astrologer’s View of the Future
It is interesting how individuals in different fields view the future differently. Classical economists see a future of endless economic growth, as does everyone employed in the public sector. Understandably so because without growth, their future is dire. Down here at the grass-roots, the first glimmerings of localism can be seen imaginatively. I hear a…
