The Tax Haven Hidden in Plain Sight – England’s Farmland
What might surprise many is that there is a tax haven sitting under everyone’s noses, here in England. It’s all perfectly legal and above board too. That tax haven is farmland.
Miles King
Imperialism in a Coffee Cup
Capitalism has evolved new and far more effective ways to plunder than by sending armies to ransack poor countries and butcher their people. Just as chattel slavery was replaced with the silent compulsion of wage slavery, in which workers ‘freely’ sell their labour to capitalists, so colonial plunder has been replaced by what is euphemistically known as ‘free trade’.
The Fight for Right of Way
Why is car culture so dominant in North American life? Is it a matter of personal preference, or is it the result of extensive advertising?Those are important factors – but University of Iowa law professor Gregory H. Shill says that auto dominance has also been cemented by a myriad of laws that favour drivers and discriminate against non-drivers.
The Seventh Fire
In the time of the Seventh Fire, the Anishinaabe were told that we will have a choice between two paths: one well worn, but scorched; and a second that’s not well worn, but green. We are instructed to make a choice.
Vast Subsidies Keeping the Fossil Fuel Industry Afloat Should be Put to Better Use
Instead of free market capitalism versus the climate, we have fossil fuel welfare versus the climate. And if we reinvested that fossil fuel welfare into social and ecological welfare, we could create a much more socially and ecologically prosperous future.
Don’t Police our Emotions – Climate Despair is Inviting People Back to Life
I have become more certain that the way through despair involves experiencing oneself as part of a greater whole and surrendering to the mystery of creation. But now the climate crisis invites us to engage with the mystery of life with fresh eyes and open hearts.
UK Has Just 18 Months to Avoid ’Embarrassment’ Over Climate Inaction
The UK government only has 12-18 months left to raise its game on climate policy, or risk “embarrassment” as the likely host of the COP26 UN summit late next year.
‘Heat, Greed and Human Need’: Review
This frankness and the positioning of human need delivery in the context of a planet burning up before our eyes make this rich book required reading for anyone who wants to break out of siloed thinking, who wants to understand the enormity of the task at hand, and who wants to be reminded of what the purpose of the economy should ultimately be.
The Disabled Planet
To be healthy creates the illusion that health is perennial—a guarantee—while to be disabled is to acknowledge and work within limits. To acknowledge the limits of our bodies helps us better see the planet in peril. To acknowledge illness is to face reality, and then to fight like hell to be made well.
Rebel Cities: These Community Wind Farms in Denmark and Scotland are Decentralising Power to the People
The future is bright for wind and renewables just about everywhere. Now it’s a matter of people, and communities, recognizing and acting on that potential.
Will More Climate Strikes Achieve the Breakthrough That we Need?
The rapid emergence of large-scale school climate strikes shows how well understood the issue now is. But this level of energy and participation will be sustained only if we achieve some real emissions-cutting victories quite soon.
Unravelling the Science of Agricultural Emissions
How have we allowed the public debate to conflate 100% plant-based diets with saving the planet? And in so doing, how on earth has the humble cow come to have taken 90% of the flak for global warming?
