How Sustainable Is Patagonia If No One Can Afford To Buy It?
Patagonia highlights an inconvenient truth at the heart of a shift towards sustainability A jacket will set you back £300. A fleece can be as much as £210. One of their…
Earth Overshoot Day shows the date that humanity would overshoot if everyone on Earth lived like people in that country. Source - Earth Overshoot Day
What is Ecological Overshoot and Can Capitalism Correct It?
Overshoot is driving humanity towards collapse on a planetary scale In 1911, the US government placed 40 reindeer on the Pribilof Islands in Alaska to provide the native residents with a…
The Climate Crisis Won’t Kill People, Consumption Will
Consumption and sustainability are incompatible The climate crisis is framed as a problem we must ‘solve’, assuming that technological innovation will allow us to overcome the challenge. But the climate crisis…
Replacing Income Tax With a Pollution Tax Can Trigger Social Transformation
Taxing social bads rather than social goods can change everything Earning income is good for you as it gives you money in your pocket, it’s good for society (because the job…
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Why the Productivity Culture Glamorising 100 Hour Work Weeks is Deranged Everyone is in a mad race to make more money than everyone else
You often hear the routines of highly successful people and their highly productive lives. Each second is planned meticulously. They wake up at 4 am, do an intense workout, work 14…
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Why the American Dream is an Orwellian Nightmare The American Dream centres on a culture of consumption
In the land of opportunity, anyone can go from having nothing to everything. That idea — that legend — lies at the heart of the American dream. All it requires is some grit, determination, and…