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Solidarity against protecting the climate
A new front has emerged in the battle for climate policy. Until now the right wing had an exclusive claim to campaigning against measures to cut emissions. Now this has changed. Reuters Point Carbon reported earlier this month that the … 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
An unlikely encounter – Günther and Gross
Some people don’t like it when the dimension of time is distorted. Yet, it happened at least once in Telford. A most unlikely encounter occurred when Günther, an EU bureaucrat in 2012, bumped into Derek Gross, travel porn mogul in … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon pricing, Derek Gross, growth, Günther, price signals, slowness, veganism
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Gross and Stumpy discuss a deal
Derek Gross is not a nice man as we know the word “nice”. He is the son of a German refugee (Grosz) who settled in West Ham in the 1940s and made his way trading bathroom furniture until a London … Continue reading