- The Guardian continues to evolve its response to the climate emergency, and this week published a climate change dashboard.
- At their annual conference, Britain’s Liberal Democrat party voted to back a Universal Basic Income. The Lib Dems are not the force they were, but it marks another step towards the mainstream for Basic Income. (The Green Party also supports BI)
- Governments resist them, campaigners often demand them without necessarily thinking it through, so it’s useful to The Economist’s perspective on how ‘outright bans can sometimes be a good way to fight climate change‘.
- As an experiment, I’m dropping the latest posts from this week in at the bottom, for those catching up. Let me know if this is a helpful feature or not, and I might add it every week.
Book review: Beliefism, by Paul Dolan
With so many to be getting on with, does the world need another ‘ism’ to fret about? It’s a question I asked myself on first encountering Paul Dolan’s book, but the definition won me over. Beliefism is prejudice against people you disagree with, and if you live in the same world that I do, that…
Climate action for the working class
I was travelling out to a school last week in Essex, East of London. My train had been delayed and I jumped in a taxi to get me there on time. The driver was a white man in his sixties, wearing a West Ham football shirt. In the course of conversation, and in-between some choice…
Price parity for EVs has arrived
Twenty years ago it looked like renewable energy was a luxury product. The world would never be able to afford to transition to clean energy, and many environmentalists concluded gloomily that a sustainable future would be one of energy constraints, re-localisation and austerity. Others were looking past the sticker price at the underlying trends and…
The Earthbound Report 