The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
So it’s also possible that this is just a ‘used future’, as Sohail Inayatullah has it—a set of ideas “created in some other context, but to which we are unconsciously holding on to, blinding us to other more authentic and empowering ideas of the future.”
Lessons from Afghanistan
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The Americans failed at ‘nation-building’ because they spent all the money on the military. The British delusions of being an independent ‘global’ power have been shown up for what they are. And the people who pay the price for this are the Afghanis, still living in one of the poorest states in the world.
Revisiting The Limits to Growth
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The choice is that either we end up with unmanaged decline, which would be catastrophic, or a managed levelling out of our economies, shaped by a shift in social values and expectations.
Mapping journeys to net zero transport
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
Reduction and removal of direct emissions from across all modes cannot be addressed by considering individual modes in isolation. A whole system view is critical—and this report offers an important contribution to this.
A revolution of the imagination
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
The function of imagination is to bring “longing into the world”—I’d say that what this does is to create a narrative gap that we are then moved to fill.
After neoliberalism: the politics of place
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
One of the biggest current problems with our politics is that the political systems that emerged in the first part of the 20th century, and which dominated the long post-war boom, have now cracked apart, but new systems have not yet taken their place.
The constrained future of aviation
By Andrew Curry, thenextwave
Aviation’s core problem is not the 2.5% (or more of carbon emissions it contributes worldwide). Its problem is that carbon emissions are baked into its business model.
The value of biodiversity
By Andrew Curry, the next wave
It came as a bit of a shock to open a government news release that reads more like an editorial in the Ecologist, but I think it’s an indication of the speed at which the landscape is changing here.