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Tag Archives: climate change
Note from a warming planet
In Manchester today, it is mild and sunny, like late September. Temperatures are unprecedentedly high in the UK and have been for days. I picked runner beans (painted lady) yesterday and achoacha (a frost tender cucumber relative) today. The beans … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economic growth, gardening
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Notes for the New Year from Plague Island
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Today, in the UK we live on a plague island (with some of the highest rates of Covid infections and deaths, globally), politically isolated from … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, politics
Tagged climate change, ecology, economy, Labour Party, national politics, overshoot, pancrisis, Tory government
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Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.
I’m rather aware that I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. It’s not because I’ve been inactive, the opposite, in fact. So here is a list of the most important things I’ve written over the last year and a bit. “Properly” … Continue reading
Could Labour implement a post-growth economy?
Here is the full version of the article published, in rather truncated form today, on Left Foot Forward. I will be posting a fully referenced extended version in the near future. pdf version of the full text Could Labour implement … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, ideology
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge“. I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critical comments. This new version, Has numerous improvements to the text and further references to … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, policy
Tagged 21st Century malaise, Bolton, climate change, degrowth, ecology, economy, imperialism, limits to growth, Manchester, Marxism, peak capitalism, permaculture, the mess we're in
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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge.
Note: there is now a revised version. See this later post. This is my new working paper. It attempts to deal with the question of peak capitalism and ecological crisis on two levels – the post-industrial wastelands of the core … Continue reading
How much greenhouse gas has been emitted in your lifetime?
This simple tool allows you to calculate how much annual global emissions have increased since a certain date, e.g. your year of birth. It also calculates the proportion of all time cumulative global emissions during your lifetime. It also shows … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology
Tagged climate change, CO2, global emissions, greenhouse gases, tool
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Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister. What could go wrong?
How things change! Within the space of a few weeks, there is now a real possibility of a Labour government with a left wing leadership. That is the result of the snap UK General Election that resulted, not in the … Continue reading
Posted in politics
Tagged climate change, degrowth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.
Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, economy, Labour Party, Manchester, NHS, politics, social policy, socialism
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Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative
This is a short post to note Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership re-election and ask some fundamental questions. Despite some misgivings in the last post, I’m delighted. This is all about rejecting the politics and economics of the last … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, Labour Party, socialism
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