What is Ecological Overshoot? (And why is it so controversial?)
Whether it’s by design or disaster, our voyage into overshoot will come to an end. On its voyage to the moon in 1972, the Apollo 17 spacecraft took one of the most…
Are Billionaires Sustainable?
Sustainability can’t be achieved without a massive redistribution of wealth The world's billionaires are revered, respected, worshipped as if deities—gods amongst mere mortals. As the richest and most successful people in the…
Why Right-Wing Politics Is So Dangerous to Society And the Environment
Right-wing policies have corrosive social and destructive environmental impacts and yet they continue to hit a nerve with large sections of society The UK Conservative Party is the most successful political party…
How Do We Move From An Unsustainable Society to a Sustainable One?
Backcasting could support the transformation of society onto a sustainable path Our behaviour is triggering some pretty horrifying environmental changes. Changes that have, for example, induced a climate crisis that risks…
The Risks and Opportunities of Social Collapse
The risk of climate and societal breakdown is finely balanced against the opportunity to redesign society from the ashes. The most dangerous thing about climate change is that we decided to refer…
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Why Increasing Income Inequality Is Tearing America Apart
Any effort to ‘Making America Great Again’ must involve wealth redistribution, the exact opposite of what rich Americans want Between 2016 and 2019 the total share of income going to the…