Economics
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Elevation
Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich? It was bad enough…
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Prince Charles Attacks Monoculture Food Production Systems – A Speech at the Langenburg Forum on Regional Food Security, Germany
May 27, 2013: Ladies and Gentlemen, if I may say so, this is a very important conference. I am sure…
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Corporate Carve-Up
Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramble for Africa. by George Monbiot One…
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China’s Growing Hunger for Meat Shown by Move to Buy Smithfield, World’s Leading Pork Producer
by Janet Larsen, Earth Policy Institute Half the world’s pigs—more than 470 million of them—live in China, but even that…
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How on Earth? Flourishing in a Not-for-Profit Economy by 2050
by Donnie Maclurcan and Jen Hinton Imagine waking up in a world where you feel good about going to work,…
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Genetically Modified Crops and Hunger – Another Look at the Evidence
Genetically modified crops are hailed by their proponents as the basis for a “new green revolution”, and as the key…
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La Nouvelle Trahison des Clercs
When scholars sell out, the consequences are grave. by George Monbiot In 1927 the French philosopher Julien Benda published a…
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Via Dolorosa
Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. by George Monbiot The records go back 800,000 years:…
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The “Long Emergency”, Permaculture, and Towns that Food Saved
by Andrew Willner We live in dangerous times, when economic collapse, climate chaos, and peak oil threaten the foundations of…
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The Providential Principle
Amazingly, the UK government has not defined the precautionary principle and appears to have no idea what it is. by…
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The Land Ethic
by Aldo Leopold, from A Sand County Almanac, 1948 Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) When god-like Odysseus returned from the wars in…
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Investing: The Option They Never Told You About
Maximum security, maximum return. Who doesn’t want that? In a world of uncertainty and change, more than a few people…
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