Category Archives: Environment, society, politics and economics
Writing memos won’t help the bees: cultural change might
In 2014 President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum setting up a task force to create a strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators. The strategy was launched a year later in May 2015. https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/Pollinator%20Health%20Strategy%202015.pdf As part … Continue reading
Boosting GDP through better protection of animals
It is estimated that some 50,000 hedgehogs are killed on British roads every year. The population has fallen by a third in the last ten years or so. http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/how-many-are-left-.html I have devised a simple legal mechanism to protect the hedgehog … Continue reading
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To make capitalism work: change the utility function (an extract from Waterford)
I thought I would publish some extracts from Waterford. Not the grizzly gory bits but the serious stuff. Here is a description of how the people’s utility function changed so that they could still run on capitalism but without it … Continue reading
The Energy Dream is not enough
I have watched a few videos recently where Bill Gates talks of a forthcoming revolution in energy technology. I don’t want to do him an injustice but he gives the impression that he thinks this energy revolution will “save the … Continue reading
Waterford
The Bustard has discovered, while exploring an attic, the manuscript of Ronald Stone’s 2096 novella, Waterford. Given its relevance to environmental matters, the work has now been published and is available on Amazon in e-book format. All sales proceeds in … Continue reading