2023-09-17 10:23
Reading Time: 6 minutes Based on the law of cultural evolution, our fate appears inevitable They can be easy to take for granted, but homo sapiens — that is, you and IR… Read More
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A blog focusing on the environmental, economic and social transformation that's upon us as a result of the climate crisis.
2023-09-10 06:46
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’re blind to our collective behaviour If insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, then our approach to sustainability… Read More
2023-08-27 10:01
Reading Time: 5 minutes It would require a radical transformation of how we do things If we want to create sustainable societies where human needs are met within environmental limits… Read More
2023-08-20 10:00
Reading Time: 4 minutes Tax havens exacerbate inequality and prevent millions from meeting basic needs There’s a belief that if you tax the rich less, everyone wins. The be… Read More
2023-08-13 10:28
Reading Time: 4 minutes Token gestures hide inconvenient truths Formula 1 pits some of the brightest engineers against one another in a relentless technological race to eke out every last d… Read More
2023-08-06 10:11
Reading Time: 4 minutes Actions are constrained by possibilities In its latest Emissions Gap Report, the UNEP concludes there is no credible pathway to achieving the 1.5°C target and cl… Read More
2023-07-30 10:12
Reading Time: 2 minutes The health of the economy depends on it Looking through a microscope at yachts on a shoreline is the closest many will get to living the lives of the rich and f… Read More
2023-07-23 10:58
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re in the midst of a climate emergency, and yet the rules of the game continue to go unquestioned The claw machine is an arcade staple that’s as easy… Read More
2023-07-09 09:51
Reading Time: 4 minutes Just Stop Oil are seen as extremists who threaten our way of life, rather than offering solutions created by that way of life It’s become as predictable a… Read More
2023-07-02 10:44
Reading Time: 3 minutes High Western living standards present a profound moral dilemma It’s all about the money. Fast cars, big houses, lavish lifestyles. Living your best life i… Read More
2023-06-25 11:19
Reading Time: 4 minutes Patagonia highlights an inconvenient truth at the heart of a shift towards sustainability A jacket will set you back £300. A fleece can be as much as £21… Read More
2023-06-18 08:47
Reading Time: 4 minutes A carbon tax could trigger a transformation of the energy sector The energy sector is responsible for around three‐quarters of greenhouse gas emissions, s… Read More
2023-06-11 17:38
Reading Time: 4 minutes Every company has to play by the same rules of the game You’ve got a business idea whose core purpose revolves around an environmental or social mis… Read More
2023-06-04 15:43
Reading Time: 4 minutes The odds of limiting warming to 1.5°C seem to make doomism a perfectly rational reaction There are two rather disparate camps that have come to define the… Read More
2023-05-30 11:17
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a conflict of interest at the heart of government decision-making In 2019, the UK became the first major economy to pass laws making it a legal obligation t… Read More
2023-05-21 11:15
Reading Time: 3 minutes Economists use the Environmental Kuznets Curve to justify economic growth in the face of increasing environmental pressures There’s a consensus that sust… Read More
2023-05-14 10:37
Reading Time: 6 minutes The goal of net zero hides an inconvenient reality Achieve net zero by 2050, and we’ll restrict global warming to 1.5°C. Restrict global warming to 1.5°&hell…Read More
2023-05-07 10:07
Reading Time: 4 minutes It all comes down to how wealth is distributed through society IBM has paused hiring jobs that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could do. The software giant estimat… Read More
2023-04-30 10:51
Reading Time: 3 minutes The lottery is a product of a winner take all society No more money troubles. No more worrying about bills. No more getting up early for a job that offers littl… Read More
2023-04-23 10:13
Reading Time: 5 minutes Never-ending economic growth on a finite planet creates a profound dilemma Looking at the Earth in all its majesty reveals an undeniable truth —R… Read More
2023-04-16 10:52
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’re hurtling into a world of profound uncertainty The deciding factor in the Soviet Union building a Doomsday Machine in Dr Strangelove was a paranoid fear A… Read More
2023-04-09 11:18
Reading Time: 5 minutes There appears to be an impossible equation at the heart of efforts to achieve a sustainable society Efforts to overcome the climate crisis are all about decarbonisin… Read More
2023-04-02 10:46
Reading Time: 3 minutes Metrics can create dangerous misconceptions Sweden is a shining light when it comes to sustainability. The country has high living standards while setting ambitious… Read More
2023-03-26 11:02
Reading Time: 4 minutes Redesigning societies around sustainable principles will be a painful yet rewarding process There’s a narrative that the climate crisis will lead us down one o… Read More
2023-03-19 11:43
Reading Time: 4 minutes The rules of the game companies play by are the problem, not the solution The world’s largest pension fund recently threatened to sack the board if they d… Read More
2023-03-12 11:27
Reading Time: 4 minutes Optimism creates a false sense of security that everything will be okay in the end Had the Wright Brothers believed they didn’t stand a chance of creating… Read More
2023-03-05 11:43
Reading Time: 4 minutes Overshoot is driving humanity towards collapse on a planetary scale In 1911, the US government placed 40 reindeer on the Pribilof Islands in Alaska to provide the na… Read More
2023-02-26 12:08
Reading Time: 4 minutes A belief business is key to creating a sustainable society remains unwavering, despite the facts suggesting otherwise In 2020 a group of scientists began an article… Read More
2023-02-19 10:37
Reading Time: 4 minutes Powerful vested interests have everything to lose if carbon emissions are taxed Carbon emissions are the greatest market failure of all time. They’re a ‘… Read More
2023-02-12 13:20
Reading Time: 4 minutes The GDP undermines efforts to move towards a sustainable society The Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989 led to 37,000 tonnes of oil spilling into the ocean off the coast… Read More
2023-02-05 13:18
Reading Time: 6 minutes The climate crisis will create conditions that are ripe for social breakdown and revolutions Revolutions are tumultuous, chaotic, unpredictable affairs that le… Read More
2023-01-29 13:14
Reading Time: 3 minutes Greed and self-interest are being prioritised over the health of the natural world In the UK, the Conservatives recently gave the green light for a new coal pow… Read More
2023-01-22 11:43
Reading Time: 3 minutes The free press isn’t as free as the name suggests By 2040 snow in the UK will be a thing of the past. By 2050, London will feel like Barcelona, Madrid wil… Read More
2023-01-15 15:51
Reading Time: 5 minutes The collapse of Easter Islands’ civilisation gives a hint of what may be in store for us As the twenty-first century progresses, the climate crisis is goi… Read More
2023-01-08 13:52
Reading Time: 3 minutes Because we’re like goldfish swimming in a fishbowl On a fine sunny morning, one fish said to the other fish, “how’s the water today?” To… Read More
2023-01-02 14:43
Reading Time: 3 minutes Our ego-centric relationship with nature has led to terrible consequences The climate crisis is always framed as something that has the potential to destroy Ea… Read More
2022-12-26 12:41
Reading Time: 6 minutes The increasing ferociousness of weather extremes will wreak havoc on society Not a day went by in 2022 where there wasn’t some mention of a weather extrem… Read More
2022-12-19 15:22
Reading Time: 6 minutes Arguments used to justify more economic growth are based on flawed assumptions Every single country has the same economic goal, to increase economic growth, but why?… Read More
2022-12-11 11:39
Reading Time: 5 minutes Corporations have the power to spearhead a transformation of the economy Of the 200 largest economic entities on the planet, 157 are corporations. Given their s… Read More
2022-12-04 15:40
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s no good decarbonising an economy that doesn’t lead to mutual happiness From ghettos to mansions; from starvation to gluttony; from million-dollar bo… Read More
2022-11-27 12:02
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sustainability departments serve ulterior means You would think a sustainability department is the clearest sign a company is committed to embracing a sustainab… Read More
2022-11-20 11:54
Reading Time: 4 minutes An often neglected human superpower means our destiny is still in our hands To be a superhero, you need superpowers like laser beams for eyes, the ability… Read More
2022-11-13 18:27
Reading Time: 4 minutes Increasing greenhouse gas emissions are intertwined with economic growth The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), was establish… Read More
2022-11-06 12:29
Reading Time: 4 minutes The visionary economist’s ideas have radical implications You wouldn’t know it, but one of the most visionary thinkers of the twenty-first century… Read More
2022-10-30 14:05
Reading Time: 4 minutes Nation-states aren’t set up to deal with global problems As obvious as it sounds, the climate doesn’t have borders. This means that when green… Read More
2022-10-23 16:37
Reading Time: 4 minutes Our conception of sustainability is defined by a reality that is unsustainable by design Imagine a man whose been brought up in a cave his entire life. At the t… Read More
2022-10-16 10:23
Reading Time: 4 minutes Various obstacles work against the environmental movement, but once one falls, they all will Extinction Rebellion (XR) launched on 31 October 2018 with its &lsq&hell…Read More
2022-10-09 10:51
Reading Time: 4 minutes Scarcity will drive prices up, leading to market failures, social instability and the risk of war Since Putin’s regime went rogue, fears of scarcity have… Read More
2022-10-02 12:03
Reading Time: 5 minutes Society is distracted by playing on people’s fears The unemployed — lazy and happy to take handouts from the government. Immigrant… Read More
2022-09-25 15:16
Reading Time: 5 minutes Viewing the climate crisis as merely ‘costs’ and ‘benefits’ is part of the reason why there is a climate crisis Upon accepting his Nobel… Read More
2022-09-18 10:27
Reading Time: 3 minutes Adaption is key to survival in the natural world After a few months without rain, grass transforms from a vivid green to a murky brown, and it appears lif… Read More
2022-09-11 11:00
Reading Time: 5 minutes After all, the whole point of the economy is to make the rich richer…right? Inflation in the UK is at its highest rate for forty years, and business is boomin… Read More
2022-09-04 10:39
Reading Time: 5 minutes A belief in deregulation is having destructive consequences The former UK prime minister Boris Johnson bowed out of Parliament with some words of advice; &lsqu&hell…Read More
2022-08-28 15:16
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re facing a wicked problem unlike any other Systemic social problems are rarely simple to solve, yet most have been defined by heroic leadership. Marti… Read More
2022-08-21 11:15
Reading Time: 5 minutes Humanity collectively has its head in the sand For a while now, there’s been a belief that sustainable development can allow three crucial prongs to be de… Read More
2022-08-14 11:07
Reading Time: 4 minutes Consumption and sustainability are incompatible The climate crisis is framed as a problem we must ‘solve’, assuming that technological innovation w… Read More
2022-08-07 15:41
Reading Time: 6 minutes Current policies are failing; social transformation is necessary to give us a fighting chance of success Achieving net zero by 2050 has become a beacon cl… Read More
2022-07-31 11:24
Reading Time: 4 minutes The aim of the game is to become rich; how you get there doesn’t matter Winning in society is all about having the most money. If you have the most money… Read More
2022-07-24 15:23
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re living in a climate emergency, yet people behave as if nothing is happening There were forest fires in London this week. Not two words you’d usuall… Read More
2022-07-17 13:45
Reading Time: 4 minutes Corporations exist to maximise profits, not to create social value Walmart, Apple and Shell are richer than countries like Russia, Belgium and Sweden. In fact… Read More
2022-07-10 10:52
Reading Time: 4 minutes Taxing social bads rather than social goods can change everything Earning income is good for you as it gives you money in your pocket, it’s good for society (b… Read More
2022-07-03 13:27
Reading Time: 4 minutes The debt system is a house of cards In 2021 global debt, that is, the total amount borrowed by governments, businesses and households, stood at an incomprehensi… Read More
2022-06-26 10:05
Reading Time: 5 minutes The metaphor of bathtub shows how social development has come at a terrible cost Imagine the Earth as a giant bathtub. There are a bunch of taps at the top of t… Read More
2022-06-19 09:28
Reading Time: 3 minutes What may appear to be an innovation makes us less sustainable The humble salt and pepper grinder doesn’t appear to be all that controversial. But the basic bel… Read More
2022-06-12 10:08
Reading Time: 3 minutes They’re focusing on the wrong problem Failed political leadership is a major reason the climate crisis continues to get worse. Our political leaders aren… Read More
2022-06-05 15:49
Reading Time: 6 minutes Necessity is the mother of invention Unprecedented heat waves, biodiversity collapse, severe droughts and catastrophic flooding. That’s what the world is set t… Read More
2022-05-29 16:30
Reading Time: 4 minutes Freedom of the capitalist variety is a little overrated Take away someone’s freedom and you suck the air out of their lungs — you blind their… Read More
2022-05-22 12:43
Reading Time: 3 minutes The homeless serve an important social purpose There’s a common perception that the homeless are to blame for their situation. They haven’t worked h… Read More
2022-05-15 14:09
Reading Time: 3 minutes Nothing is valued unless it can make money Every decade of the twentieth century was defined by a distinctive sound. Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry in the 1950s… Read More
2022-05-08 10:53
Reading Time: 5 minutes The triple bottom line provides an illusion of change The Triple Bottom Line (TBL) was a term coined by John Elkington in 1994. The TBL is a “sustainabili… Read More
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