Never mind all the talk about changing the indicators of how we measure progress. A real ‘limits to growth’ agenda would involve changing how bannking, debt and indeed money itself work…
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
I’m Mullah Omar! And so’s my wife!
Ahem. Turns out it may have been largely the Brits' fault: President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff on Thursday said that British authorities were responsible...
US airport rage: an alternative perspective
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBL3ux1o0tM[/youtube]
Where ideas come from
...according to Seth Godin: Ideas don't come from watching television Ideas sometimes come from listening to a lecture Ideas often come while reading a book...
Are developed economies the risky bets now?
The FT's John Authers was asking a pretty seminal question last week: Do we have the emerging markets all wrong? When money goes into China, Brazil and other...
Quantitative easing made simple
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUY16CkS-k[/youtube]
Clay Shirky on cognitive surplus
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu7ZpWecIS8[/youtube]
The young generation’s message to the United Nations
H/t Chris Blattman.
Picture of the week
You have to love this picture that Wired.com used to illustrate a story about US surveillance of Russian nuclear weapons. What tickles me is the fact that the...
Food spike 2.0
The only four stories about the future
This from Jon Turney's excellent Rough Guide to The Future: Jim Dator, a futurist at the University of Hawaii, developed a classification system in the 1970s...
50 Cent: the Oxford English Dictionary version
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/16885715[/vimeo] Courtesy of the excellent English 50 Cent, who helpfully provides a running translation of 50 Cent's tweets. More...
Cameron to abolish Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit
Alex Barker at the FT Westminster blog has the details: The plans are not quite finalised. But it looks like the Strategy Unit — which is staffed by a few...
Things you seldom see: City brokerages publishing reports on limits to growth
Tullett Prebon, if you haven't heard of them, describe themselves as: ...an intermediary in wholesale financial markets facilitating the trading activities of...
Now that Republicans have a majority in the House…
...you may be wondering just how bad it's going to be on climate change. Here's a clue: Last year, when John Boehner, of Ohio, the incoming House Speaker, was...
2010’s World Energy Outlook
The International Energy Agency published this year's magnum opus a week or so ago - here's the Executive Summary (pdf). Key points: - The Outlook sets out...
Today in Britain (1964)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbb7g1HT0YA[/youtube]
New CIC report on Globalization and Scarcity
Does the issue of resource limits necessarily lead to a world of zero-sum games, resource nationalism and intensifying competition for dwindling resources? And if not, then what kinds of multilateral action are needed in order to prevent this outcome?
Globalization and Scarcity
Center on International Cooperation report on what forms of multilateral cooperation are needed to manage scarcity of resources
Signs of movement on CAP reform in France (well, sort of)
This from ICTSD in Geneva: Days after calling for a dramatic reorientation of European farm subsidies towards environmental protection, the French ministry...
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