Gas Crisis Hits Food as Giant Dutch Greenhouses Go Dark
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Category «Future»
A moment of truth: THE ARRIVAL OF ECONOMIC CONSTRAINT
Tim Morgan’s latest post. This concludes that: The ‘basics’ of the situation – deteriorating top-line and discretionary prosperity, rising inflation and worsening financial stress – are simply the first-order effects of the deteriorating energy-prosperity equation. More complex processes can be anticipated, some of them identifiable in a taxonomy which sees businesses simplifying their products and …
The big food redesign study
The Ellen Macarthur Foundation has published what may turn out to be seen as a “ground-breaking” study about a transition of the food system to a circular economy The circular economy is increasingly recognised as a solutions framework to address global challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. Moving towards a food system that builds …
Degrowth: the case for a new economic paradigm
Unbridled growth appears to be at odds with social well-being and environmental sustainability. How might we develop a model that reduces the imperative for growth while maintaining economic stability? This article, written in 2017, by Riccardo Mastini (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) provides a brief history of degrowth. This interpretation of degrowth assume that the use …
Workers Who Maintain Supply Chains Warn of Worldwide ‘System Collapse’
From “The Epoch Times” Several industry groups have warned world leaders of a worldwide supply-chain “system collapse” due to pandemic restrictions, coming as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the current period of higher inflation will last until 2022. The International Chamber of Shipping, a coalition of truck drivers, seafarers, and airline workers, has warned …
A Crisis of Affordabiliy
Tim Watkin’s latest post in his blog “The Consciousness of Sheep” concludes that: The temptation is to rush out and predict the end of industrial civilisation immediately. But it is worth heeding John Maynard Keynes’ lament that: “The stock market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” As Tim Morgan at Surplus Energy …
The march of folly
The latest from The Consciousness of Sheep. concludes that: We may rue the long chain of political and economic decisions taken between the first energy shock in 1973 and the onset of energy depletion in the 2020s. But casting blame gets us nowhere – and in reality, all of us have participated in and endorsed …
The UK economy is showing a lot of signs of falling to pieces
Today’s comment by Tim Morgan in Surplus Energy Economics “Nobody in politics seems to know what the real problems are, let alone how to fix them. The government lurches from one ‘fix’ to another, and seems to think that the public finances can be repaired by taxing employees and employers alone, with no additional taxation …
The Big Green Lie
The latest post from the conscious of sheep concludes that: This is the Big Green Lie. Because running an economy entirely on renewable energy is easy. Humans have been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years. Indeed, it is only in the last three centuries that we have done other than operating entirely on …
Lambas Scones
Paul Mobb’s lifestyle may provide a hint of things to come. He sees life from the bottom up, in amazing detail. He writes: One of the reasons I got into nutrition in my teens was that I did a lot of endurance exercise – long-distance cross-country walking, backpacking, and cycle touring. I didn’t “go vegan” …