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POPSBank lending to eurozone industry slows Surely companies are stronger if the do not use loans, but grow (or not) on the basis of revenues. And banks are stronger if they do not lend to companies desperate for loans, which might not be paid back.
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POPSTrillions Of Troubles Ahead When the debt treadmills spin too fast, people will have to jump off, ditch the dollar and create their own media of exchange. Communities did it very sucessfully in the 1930s with their own 'scrip' currencies.
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POPSForecast 2010: The Center does Not Hold... (1) I have tagged this clip: #degrowth. If anyone makes clips on similar subject matter could I ask them to tag them #degrowth. Then we can have immediate access to a unique collection (which can then be analysed by the likes of us).
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POPSSir Richard Branson: the airline owner on his new war What a w*nker! If he was serious, he would sell his airlines and invest in cool trans-Atlantic liners, as I tried to suggest to him in the early 90s. He could still make a lot of money, even now, if he moved fast, with his undisputed ability to market and self-promote.
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POPSObama's health insurance is deadly fiasco I don't usually comment on US health care, BUT to be *forced* to pay private profit-making company for inadequate health coverage, with premiums increasing as I age, would make me very riled. And the policy won't do any good for the image of Obama, the Federales, or the health insurance industry. Where is Ralph Nader and a third Party when you need them? Couldn't he get together with Ron Paul -- the ultimate coalition. Howard Dean seems to understand what's going on, but he's an MD. If I were an American, then I would want to try something different. Anything! Why aren't people organising?
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (3) Following Bartlett's logic, it's a case of do or die (if not, do and die), if not on the level of the individual, then on the level of humankind. People need to start to care for themselves (and others!) on the level of the species. The selfish individualism fostered by the consumer economy and the whole trash heap of economic growth theory needs to thrown overboard first, otherwise the boat will most certainly sink.
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POPSLaws of Sustainbility (2) Bartlett does not say what to do, exactly. But he strongly implies that the first thing to do is stop having children and the second is to cut consumption sharply.
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POPSLaws of Sustainability (1)
Thanks to Eric Snyder for this. I wanted to Amplify it a bit more (and classify it in our collections). Bartlett is brilliant and pulls no punches. For some of his other utterly complelling thinking on which these sustainability "Laws" are based. Here what we said in Clipmarks in 2007. "To understand the nature of accelerating change, see the Clips below. They show the statistical nature of the problem. Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy (transcript) - Part 1 http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9ACF7407-5408-4A61-9DEC-DAFA7484AECE/ Dr. Albert Bartlett: Arithmetic, Population and Energy (transcript) - Part 2 http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/26B7972E-AD22-4AC6-8AEC-E76CEF735804/ The solution has be implemented virtually instantaneously, if there is to be any chance of survival. But all it takes is a change of mind about the purpose of life -- from earth consumer / exploiter to earth carer / partner. To change one's mind takes only a micro-second and we alr
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POPSThe madness of Rome (1) As I said, yesterday: there are ways to live without oil and gas. There is no way to live without water. Trading the water of life for life-threatening pollution is truly madness.
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POPSSeed behemoth Monsanto stumbles into antitrust trouble (2) The Monsanto strategy of industry domination has worked brilliantly. It must be irritating to be so reviled for such success. Can the money really make up for the notoriety? It must also be a drag trying to pretend that GM is the answer to world food shortages, when independent studies indicate that the technology does not even increase yield after the first couple of years. By then the farmers are dependent. It's the classic drug-pusher marketing technique which is why it is so successful and so damaging.
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POPSDismal outcome at Copenhagen fiasco If that scion is business, The Financial Times, sounds as angry about Nohopenhagen, as any of the protesters who were literally left out in the cold, then it is time to take notice! President Obama seems to have taken the red pill. I wonder whether he took it before he was elected, or was forced to do so afterward.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPSJapan GDP revised heavily downward Governments took a bet with stimulous policy: double or nothing. And they keep doubling. Any betting man will say this bet a very easy way to lose a lot of money, and is a sign of complete desperation.
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POPSGreece downgraded over high debt Europe is falling. What will the order be: 1) Greece, 2) Ireland, 3) Italy, 4) Portugal, 5) UK, 6) Spain? What could Germany and France do then, but follow. What happens then is the $64 trillion question. Hyperinflation? More deflation? Nobody knows, but they will know soon. The knowledge is liable to be depressing for believers in eternal economic growth.
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POPSThe Complexity Myth I think the author means complicated, hierarchical control, not the 'complexity' of chaos theory and living systems. Still, it's his idea of 'simplicity' that's important.
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POPSDominic Lawson: Roll up, roll up for the great Copenhagen emissions-fest And that's not counting the media flying in from everywhere. The very concept that politicians have the power to restrict climate change to 2C or 3C is as absurd as waving a magic wand. No wonder many people are skeptical about what they are doing. It doesn't change the sad facts of glacier melting, water poisoning, mass extinction, deforestation etc.etc. which are the direct consequences of industrial civilisation.
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POPSBreak-in targets [Canadian] climate scientist The Canadian authorities are controlled by Stephen Harper's government -- climate change deniers in the Bush mode. Who are really behind these people? Holy rollers? Oil companies? Is it something to do with psychology of greed?
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