Category Archives: Environment, society, politics and economics
Disasters – Climate Change for Football Fans on Sandy
This is chapter 18 from Climate Change for Football Fans. On whether disasters will change our views on climate change. 18. Disasters Why it’s no use hoping for disasters. “What about disasters?” I asked after we’d thought about that. “Won’t … Continue reading
Gina Rinehart v Daryl Hannah. No contest.
People say: “You need economic growth if you want to save the planet. You need wealth to be able to invest into green energy and new farming technologies and electric cars and insulation and so forth.” This doesn’t stack up: … Continue reading
A fishing accident
It was a hot winter’s day. The prime minister, Onan Hash, and his deputy, the minister for economic decline, Nat Eb, were spending the day on strategy. They’d decamped to Hash’s beach-front cottage on the west coast of Scotland. Onan … Continue reading
Meat porn
The trouble with writing stories via a blog is that the lack of planning can lead to geographical and temporal dislocations. You might remember that Stumpy Regenkurt, senior advisor to the Minister of Economic Decline, was once an MP in … Continue reading
Limited liability as a socialist phenomenon
Although limited liability is at the heart of capitalism, it is a socialist phenomenon. And, ironically, this socialist mechanism is at the root of many of the ills of capitalism. So weirdly, the socialists only have themselves to blame for … Continue reading