Something scary is lurking in the melting Arctic permafrost, write Tim Radford & Oliver Tickell: 1,700 Gt of carbon. That's 53 years worth of current emissions, and if we let it melt the impact would cost the world $43 tn. Or act now, and we could preserve the Arctic ice for a seventh as much.
Mammoth Arctic carbon thaw would cost us $43 trillion Tim Radford | 23rd September 2015 News Arctic Climate Change Water Emissions Science mammoth-cut.jpg Something scary is lurking in the melting …
Uncontrolled growth of financial debt is currently laying waste to large parts of the global economy. An explosion of ecological debt looks set to do the same, but worse, to a biosphere friendly to human civilisation.
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During the past weeks, the world’s media have been transfixed by the convulsions of the US and global fi nancial system. At stake are billions in bail-outs and trillions in derivatives. The viability of banks and currencies is threatened, and ultimately the savings and investments of hundreds of millions of ordinary people.
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Seven top environmentalists recommend their reads for the summer, covering everything from psychological thrillers to steady state economics
… from psychological thrillers to steady state economics Zeitoun by Dave Eggers (£18.99, … geeks like me!' Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson … model, a different way of looking at economics beyond the GDP growth obsession that …
A wide-ranging academic study of civil wars in 69 countries from 1945 to 1999 finds that the likelihood of outside intervention increases when the country at war has large reserves of oil, and a potential intervener needs to secure oil imports on favourable terms to meet domestic demand.
… published in the Review of International Economics , found strong empirical evidence … . Petros Sekeris is Principal Lecturer in Economics at the University of Portsmouth. …
Ann Pettifor has changed the world once; now she wants to do it again.
… Finance Green New Deal Jubilee 200 Campaign Economics Visionaries … was a power, she understood. This is where economics as a lever for change comes in. ‘You … have a reason to act. Which brings us back to economics. Green New Deal , New Economics …
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For the second year running CO2 emissions flatlined even as the global economy was growing at around 3%, writes Alex Kirby. But sharply rising temperatures show the need for further massive renewable energy deployment to actually bring emissions down.
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Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation.
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If we are ever to bring bovine TB under control in Britain's cattle herd, we must begin with the main disease reservoir, writes Tom Langton: the cattle themselves. The insistence on culling badgers has little to do with disease control, and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, unwilling to sacrifice an iota of production in the interests of a real solution.
… and everything to do with the short term economics of the beef and dairy industries, …
Stressed out and living for the weekend? Breaking free may be easier than you thought...
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In an open letter to the UK's political party leaders, Scientists for Global Responsibility urge those politicians to take the global threat of climate change seriously and to exploit science and technology to create jobs, tackle fuel poverty, and reduce local air pollution
Open letter to party leaders on climate change and the UK economy Dr Stuart Parkinson Dr Philip Webber Scientists for Global Responsibility | 13th June 2017 News Climate Change Politics Science …
From all sides, the cry is the same: something must be done. More must be done.
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There's a simple way to induce us to make good environmental choices, writes Cass R. Sunstein: make them the default setting. Whether it's selecting double sided photocopies or renewable electricity tariffs, defining easily-overridden 'green defaults' is by far the most efficacious means to influence consumer choices for the environment and the planet.
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Britain's political, economic and media elites will be the last to turn against the neoliberal system that spawned them, writes Jonathan Cook - even as it impoverishes the country and endangers our fragile planet. Cheered on by the Guardian, most Labour MPs would rather destroy their own party than let Corbyn and his backers make it fit for its 21st century purpose.
Why Corbyn so terrifies the liberal elite Jonathan Cook | 22nd July 2016 Comment Politics UK Media Science corbyn-cut.jpg Britain's political, economic and media elites will be the last to turn …
Published in Nature today, a new cattle herd model shows how bTB infects cattle and how to halt its spread, writes Matt Keeling. Most effective is the slaughter of entire herds with even a single TB infection detected. Culling badgers has very little impact.
Culling badgers is no way to stop the spread of bovine TB Matt Keeling | 3rd July 2014 News Badgers Health Farming UK Science btb-graph-cut.jpg Published in Nature today, a new cattle herd model …
The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write
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Just as long term research into the health impacts of the 'electrosmog' created by wifi and mobile phones is yielding its first results, it's at risk of sudden termination from President Trump's budget cuts, writes Paul Mobbs. But the cuts have little to do with saving money - and a lot to do with protecting corporate profit and economic growth from harsh truths, including evidence that electrosmog causes cancer in laboratory rats, and maybe humans too.
Cellphones, wifi and cancer: Will Trump's budget cuts zap vital ‘electrosmog' research? Paul Mobbs | 27th March 2017 Comment Radiation Media Science Technology electrosmog-cut-b.jpg Just as long term …
Unsustainable and bad for the environment, industrial viticulture leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Pesticide-free and weed-friendly, biodynamic wine holds the key to an organic revolution.
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A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed Paul Mobbs | 30th May 2014 News Energy Fossil Fuels Fracking UK Climate Change Science fracking-bakken-ndakota-cut.jpg A wholesale …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
… documenting the ways and means by which the economics of the egg sector is driving … disease dynamics, land use and global economics, routinely suffers at the expense of …
Confused when shopping? Wondering if, when you go into the nation’s favourite supermarket, you’re getting the maximum green bang for your buck? Andrew Simms’ latest book, Tescopoly, is a forensic investigation of all things Tesco – including the chain’s green and ethical credentials. Forget the hype, he says, Tesco’s most recent charm offensive, the Good Neighbour policy, launched in May 2006, isn’t good enough. Could Britain’s largest retailer do it better? Take a look at Tesco’s Plan A – then read Plan B
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