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Tag Archives: Garrett Hardin
From the Treaty of Rome to the Tragedy of the Commons
This post has been prompted by recent comments on an old post on another blog. That blog is Learning from Dogs, and the old post – dating from December 2011 – was about the financial crisis in Greece… Yes, it … Continue reading
When in hole keep digging?
To mark the occasion of our World leaders converging on Rio de Janeiro this week, the BBC’s Science Editor, David Shukman, has visited the World’s largest iron ore mine, Carajas, in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. See: Forests and caves … Continue reading
Not sustainable going forward
I have something important I want, on behalf of Bill McKibbin’s 350.org, to ask you to do today: The idea is that for a 24 hour period—starting at 8AM UTC/GMT today, folks around the world create a Twitterstorm by sending … Continue reading
When will we have enough Supermarkets?
On the day after it was announced that unemployment has reached a 17-year high in the UK, I hesitate to complain about the fact that Morrisons has promised to open 25 new supermarkets in the UK next year and create … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Consumerism, Ecological Modernisation, Economics, Environment, Growthmania, Modernity, Money Fetishism
Tagged Garrett Hardin, Herman Daly, Tim Worstall
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UNFCCC 1, Planet 0
And so the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) talks in Durban have ended with yet another decision to put-off necessary decisions for anything up to 8 years. This is yet another vindication of Clive Hamilton’s 2010 description … Continue reading
A gross case of intergenerational injustice
On page 248 of Storms of my Grandchildren, James Hansen describes the actions of our current generation – and the political and business elites who claim to act in the best interests of society in general (when in fact their … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Growthmania, Intergenerational Injustice, James Hansen, Liberalism, Philosophy, Politics, Storms of my Grandchildren, Sustainable development, UNFCCC
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Garrett Hardin, Herman Daly, Writing on the wall
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Sammy Wilson MP – an ex-Environment Minister
Apart from Graham Stinger (a former chemist) – and Classics graduate Lord Monckton (who has turned climate change scepticism into an art form) – all sceptical UK politicians have a background in economics and/or business. As it is the economic … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Growthmania, Liberalism, Limits to Growth, Politics, Scepticism
Tagged Bad Science, Ben Goldacre, Fred Singer, Garrett Hardin
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The ecological challenge for Socialism
A Review of ‘Socialism’ by Mary Mellor, in Dobson, A. and Eckersley, R. (2006), Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (pp.35-50), Cambridge: CUP. In the first two chapters of Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge, the contributing authors, Roger Scruton … Continue reading
Can modernisation be “ecological”? – Part 3
This is the third and final part of my mini-critique of the school of environmental thought known as Ecological Modernisation. The first two parts having been published on 24 September and 25 September respectively. ——————- Newsflash: Today is Earth Overshoot … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Consumerism, Ecological Modernisation, Economics, Environment, Growthmania, Limits to Growth, Modernity, Money Fetishism, Optimum Population, Philosophy, Politics, Scepticism
Tagged Earth Overshoot Day, Garrett Hardin, Herman Daly, Jeremy Bentham, mortality, William Ophuls
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