It’s time to move beyond economic growth when assessing economic progress. It has outlived its usefulness. We need to re-balance social, ecological and economic values. We need to promote broad welfare and inclusion instead. We are in a deep recession right now, our health systems have been tested and our governments are having huge control […]
Tag: environment
Children asking parents a question on climate change
An interesting article on The Conversation web-site and I thought I would highlight just one bit of it. First the children should work out what the parents CO2 emissions were last year, yes they’ll have to ask their parents lots of questions about this or get them to provide the answer (there are various carbon […]
A Personal Manifesto – A Leap into the Future
I recently read a book by Naomi Klein called “No is Not Enough”. It discussed how shock political tactics are being used to generate one crisis after another. Policies that are destroying our environment, our economy, our security and a sense of well-being. It includes information on how to re-dress this, how we can organise […]