Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future
First published in the RADIX thinktank Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is not all it seems. When I was employed by Liverpool City Council in the 1970s, amongst other things, I was responsible for traffic signals in the city. At that time, there was widespread trade union activity. It was important to who did what. I …
During the next decade of de-growth and declining prosperity, some of the things we regard now as essential will become discretionary. How we used to live, day-to-day, at home is an example. Until the early 1960s, I lived in houses that were not centrally heated. Then, my parents had a house built with “background” heating, …
I have just come across this in a newsletter I receive. I think this is a symptom of de-growth. …. the financial world is deeply perverted. It’s a landscape in which toxic debt can be packaged up – and leveraged. Where ‘money’ can be conjured onto the books of the banks. And stock prices shoot …