Fuel Poverty, the Cost of Living Crisis, and Climate Change: A Data Blog
Though often depoliticised by compartmentalising different problems, across society decisions on energy and the environment are innately tied to lifestyle and consumption.
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How Are the US and Other Countries Doing on Fighting Climate Change?
On December 8, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to spearhead his administration’s efforts to combat climate change. What does this order actually promise to accomplish? How does that compare with what other nations are doing? Is any of it enough to avert global calamity?
Our ancestors worked less and had better lives. What are we doing wrong?
What should be the characteristics of valuable work in the 21st century, both the type that happens in an office and outside it? How should we work in an age where corporate fossil fuel extraction and private consumption is ruining the planet?
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Introduction
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
The “Selling” of Degrowth
Can those who advocate hitting the brakes on economic growth get their message across before it’s too late?
The road to a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
The campaign for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty embodies key principles of Green foreign policy: peaceful disarmament, dealing with the root causes of ecological devastation by holding polluters to account, and a belief in internationalism and multilateralism.
The Cost of Waiting
In other words, data is no substitute for knowledge or wisdom. And knowledge and wisdom seem to be the scarcest of resources in modern Canada.
Inflationary pressure in the US
We cannot continue consuming cheap goods imported from countries and then criticize them for burning fossil fuels. It’s time to wake up and recognize that living on renewable energy will require a totally different lifestyle from the one we’ve been living.
In Praise of Laziness
I firmly believe in the virtues of laziness. I would see a return to economic un-productivity. Happily, I also doubt wage-work will survive as we are forced to focus on meeting our own needs using less transport and fewer resources.
The era of cheap living is over
We’ve lived this way for decades, but if we are going to address climate change it’s time for us to recognize that the era of plentiful, cheap goods is over. We will pay more for everything.
Tech won’t save us. Shrinking consumption will. Returning to a 1970s Economy could save our future
We must contract the global economy, restructure technological society and restore what’s left of natural ecosystems if we want to live and breathe.
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?: Review
It is well past the time to face hard decisions of how to reduce obscene levels of corporate production instead of fiddling with perpetual energy fantasies while the planet burns.
