Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Covid crisis highlighted an already existing problem: that money is useless if you can’t buy anything useful with it. It is the problem of the shipwrecked sailor on a deserted island.
If we want to stand a chance of building socialism in the near future, we must become eco-socialists and stop catastrophic climate change now.
Oil could have provided all the substitutes needed to end the whale industry, but instead fossil fuels energized the killing.
But while measures to curb emissions and reduce the impacts of rising temperatures will be good for the many, the few who work in industries affected by climate policies risk losing their livelihoods as the economy leans increasingly upon renewable energy.
Two overlapping news stories in the past few weeks must focus our attention on the need to move away from fossil fuels as quickly as possible and to transition our global economy to a more just and resilient system, especially for the world’s poor and vulnerable peoples.
