The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and subsequent recession has provided the ONLY reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in over a decade. The following years have seen repeats of economic instability, severe social unrest and a resumption of record levels of greenhouse gas emissions. An eloquant solution has been provided by Prof Tim Jackson in “Prosperity Without Growth”
As we put another load in the washing machine, or wonder who will be the first to be ejected from the latest “X Factor” show, other important issues enter the minds of a new global citizenry.
Clocks are stopping as another crash occurs, defining moments are now common to more and more people, as the way things have been for the last 30 years lurch towards an as yet undefined precipice. Socially, economically and environmentally the prosperity bus is finding less and less traction as the steep gradient on the Mountain of Debt slows the engines of growth. Continue reading
Naomi Klein, Journalist, Author, and Social Activist
Naomi calls for system change through a re-localizing of our economies and a fundamental shift away from capitalism’s reliance on endless economic growth.
As a basis for understanding the financial world and why it and the current “free market fundamentalism” is totally unsuited to the survival of the Earth as we know it, this 4 part documentary is a must see. Continue reading
