2024-04-14 10:12
Reading Time: 7 minutes Our minds can’t deal with big numbers Since 1990 the world has emitted over 750 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It’s dif… 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.
2024-04-07 10:11
Reading Time: 8 minutes A silent revolution is beginning to have enormous social ramifications You can start with nothing, and end with everything. That’s the American dream, baby! Wh… Read More
2024-03-24 10:56
Reading Time: 8 minutes The surprising history of why we drink cow milk illustrates how problematic culture is when it comes to overcoming the climate crisis. Milk, glorious, milk&hell&hell…Read More
2024-03-17 11:09
Reading Time: 7 minutes Trees that don’t follow the Earth’s rules will always pay the price As you walk into the Shard in London (Europe’s tallest building), there is… Read More
2024-03-03 10:16
Reading Time: 7 minutes We’re going to pay the price for turning the world into a giant farm Supermarkets are stocked to the brim with thousands of exotic products. Takeaway serv… Read More
2024-02-25 10:55
Reading Time: 6 minutes How an ambivalence to nature and the attitude that it exists in service of ‘man’ has led to an exploitative relationship It will cost you anywhere betwee… Read More
2024-02-18 11:28
Reading Time: 6 minutes Reaching destination sustainability requires radical change In 2020 global wealth reached a staggering $514 trillion. With 60 per cent of that wealth in the top… Read More
2024-02-11 11:07
Reading Time: 7 minutes And why chickens can’t lay square eggs There once lived a chicken who had a peculiar dream. That dream was to lay a square-shaped egg. The chicken spent e… Read More
2024-02-04 11:23
Reading Time: 8 minutes Technology has revolutionised the human experience, but its increased sophistication comes with catastrophic costs Today people are more nourished, live longer, are… Read More
2024-01-28 12:51
Reading Time: 5 minutes Football clubs have been hallowed out and sold to the world Football has the power to inspire, to send people into wild frenzies of uncontained joy, to break hearts… Read More
2024-01-21 11:13
Reading Time: 5 minutes The circular economy could revolutionise our relationship with products You’d be hard-pressed to find a company that hasn’t jumped on th… Read More
2024-01-14 12:37
Reading Time: 6 minutes The owners of capital are the real villains of the piece The slogan ‘eat the rich’ has become popular amongst anti-capitalists. The slogan isn… Read More
2024-01-07 11:29
Reading Time: 7 minutes Having the right idea at the right time can be a game-changer Early in 2000, Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, the founders of Netflix, sat nervously in a meeting roo… Read More
2023-12-24 12:03
Reading Time: 3 minutes Excess, debt and a culture feasting on the environment Tis’ the season of giving. Tis the season to be jolly. Tis the season of goodwill. Tis when families com… Read More
2023-12-17 12:36
Reading Time: 8 minutes Comforting lies hide horrifying truths Wind turbines gently slice through the air, generating the energy that powers our lives. A majestic sunrise creeps over the ho… Read More
2023-12-10 11:13
Reading Time: 7 minutes The human population presents a profound moral dilemma Ever since you were born the human population has been increasing by a billion people every 15 years or s… Read More
2023-12-03 11:27
Reading Time: 5 minutes By design or disaster, the age of oil is going to end It doesn’t look like much. A thick, black, splodgy substance. But locked into oil is massive amounts… Read More
2023-11-26 12:08
Reading Time: 8 minutes Fact is proving stranger than fiction Winston Smith, the main protagonist of Orwell’s dystopic masterpiece 1984 sums up doublethink. Doublethink, so says… Read More
2023-11-19 11:37
Reading Time: 5 minutes It all comes down to social incentives Behind every great fortune is a great crime. It’s a well-known saying that no doubt carries some weight. And yet… Read More
2023-11-12 11:16
Reading Time: 6 minutes Seemingly worlds apart but with a critical shared characteristic They’re nothing but gun-loving patriots. They’re intolerant, racist and have a cal… Read More
2023-11-05 11:17
Reading Time: 7 minutes It all comes down to being in the right place at the right time How did neoliberalism go from being mocked to dominating economic policy? How did Martin Luther… Read More
2023-10-29 09:49
Reading Time: 5 minutes Plenty of evidence suggests otherwise “Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the… Read More
2023-10-22 10:26
Reading Time: 7 minutes Incrementalism or paradigm shift —two distinctive camps at the forefront of transformation It’s widely acknowledged that transformation is required to mo… Read More
2023-10-15 11:27
Reading Time: 5 minutes We’re sleepwalking into a world of pain When does a crisis not feel like one? A crisis doesn’t feel like a crisis when there is barely any mention o… Read More
2023-10-08 10:23
Reading Time: 5 minutes Eating meat and dairy is ingrained in cultures Steak, hamburgers, ice cream — they hardly seem controversial, do they? But interwoven with our… Read More
2023-10-01 10:48
Reading Time: 3 minutes The wrong frame leads to the wrong goal. The wrong goal leads to the wrong actions Climate change, global warming, climate crisis, climate emergency, whatever w… Read More
2023-09-24 10:11
Reading Time: 5 minutes Apple’s triumph in storytelling hides some inconvenient truths It’s been heralded as a triumph in storytelling. Apple’s latest sustainability video… Read More
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
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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