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Change won’t happen until materials become far more costly
Quote from a discussion in Dr Tim Morgan’s blog on Surplus Energy Economicshttps://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2023/11/10/265-explore-and-explain/ I have in front of me a wooden table dating from the 1980s. It’s solid, heavy, and if it ever gets to look too tatty I can just sand it down and paint it again. What good is that to the world’s…
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Financing the End of Modernity
How financialization heralds the end of the industrial age A piece published by The Honest Sorcerer: A critic of Modern Times – offering ideas for honest contemplation. Well worth reading at https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/financing-the-end-of-modernity Western neoliberal economies are on the brink of a steep economic decline. Barring an energy / productivity miracle a prolonged and deep recession…
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Fossil-Free Food Systems
This 90 minute Roundtable podcast in Nate Hagens series the Great Simplification is fascinating. There are so many lessons which are relevant to the UK. To see the original go to https://youtu.be/lb2tJXopTJA__________________________________________________________________________________________________- The four speakers are as small-scale farmer Jason Bradford, permaculturist and documentarian Andrew Millison, regenerative agriculture activist Vandana Shiva, and regenerative farmer and…
