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The End of Fossil Fuel-Based Growth

The President of the EU Commission has announced that “a growth model based on fossil fuels is obsolete.” Nate Hagens discusses this in his Great Simplification project. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/frankly-original/31-reflections-on-beyond-growth Von der Leyen was speaking at a European Parliament-hosted event in Brussels entitled “Beyond Growth” whose main theme was how to reconcile economic development with environmental goals. …

The Future of Green Thinking

I have been uneasy for some time about current long-term green thinking.  In Herefordshire and elsewhere A recent article by Megan Selbert and William Rees “Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition” has provided insight into my unease. I have been following Prof Bill Rees for some years.  …

It’s time to change our mindsets

First published on the Radix Think Tank For the past five years, I have been writing on Radix about the future: 60 pieces so far. I have also been putting together Orcop.com –  a blog subtitled “The best place to find out what is being said about the future. Not what the Establishment is saying. What those …