Fossil Fuel based growth has ended: This is the best place to learn about the future
Copied from Dr Tim Morgan’s blog. The UK economy is, in my opinion, entering the long-predictable crash phase. Essentially there are two possible scenarios here. First, the aggregate burden of national or global liabilities just becomes so great that vertigo sets in, as people begin to realise that these liabilities cannot be honoured ‘for value’. …
A recent post by Jeremy Lent in his blog has persuaded me to look for and add links to blogs I consider relevant to my aim to raise awareness of the explosion of thinking about the future.
by Richard Heinberg, originally published by Resilience.org June 15, 2023 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the resulting disruption of multiple global supply chains, policy think tanks have increasingly adopted the term polycrisis to signify humanity’s destabilized status quo. The World Economic Forum’s 2023 Global Risk Report uses the …
Green growth is an alternative to economic growth Most of us believe that the present recession will end. They always have done in the past. In a recent speech by President von der Leyen at the Beyond Growth Conference in the European Parliament on the 15th of May. She said: If we look back, a …
Copied from The Conversation News Letter A formidable ally in the fight against climate change is hidden under our feet. New research suggests 36% of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) emitted from burning fossil fuels each year is taken up by a group of fungi called mycorrhizae, which live in partnership with plants in the soil. …
A theory to explain everything Copied from NE – nakedemperor.substack.com May 24, 2023 I’m constantly looking for new theories to explain why the things that are happening in this world are happening. Why are governments pushing for ever greater control? Why did they unnecessarily destroy their economies during Covid? Why do they push a self-destructive …
Human activity—mostly the burning of fossil fuels—has raised Earth’s atmospheric carbon content by 50 percent, from 280 parts per million (ppm) to 420 ppm. Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, we’ve released approximately 950 billion metric tons of carbon into the air. Every year, humans emit more than 40 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, as of …
The President of the EU Commission has announced that “a growth model based on fossil fuels is obsolete.”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. …
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. …
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 …
A recent piece on the BBC website entitled “What is climate change? A really simple guide” is good until you reach the end: The piece says: What can individuals do? Significant changes need to come from governments and businesses, but scientists say some minor changes in our lives can limit our impact on the climate: …
Recent comments by Tim Morgan in his blog. The onset of economic contraction, even if it were to happen in a gradual and orderly way, will have profound political and social consequences. “Growth” has become a secular article of faith, and economic crises or hard times have often been the downfall of governments and regimes. …
A video of a lecture by Mark Mills making the point that the world would need hundreds of new mines to enable a growth-based economy to continue to be achieved.
Further to my piece on the 55 uses of Biochar I have been surprised to find how much it is known about and used. Never before have I come across something which has been going on for thousands of years, and is still alive throughout the world. Moreover, it is something which can contribute to …