LETTERS
on SUSTAINABILITY
Written mainly in response to articles
from a number of online
newspapers |
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29 Dec | The MOST important lesson from the Indian Ocean tsunami | |
28 Dec | Zoe Williams tapping in the dark | |
20 Dec | The evolution of language and social behaviour | |
18 Dec | Two more examples of "Insanities of Normality" | |
27 Nov | Questioning the American Way of Life | |
20 Nov | On the mistaken belief that the socialist dream can be realised using capitalist cash | |
17 Nov | Top rates for top dogs - America's shameful income differentials | |
10 Nov | The beauty/ugliness of wind farms | |
10 Nov | Too deep in denial to face the contradictions between economy and ecology | |
8 Nov | Two examples of the insanity of economic normality | |
7 Nov | Economy and Ecology: the most serious case of confused priorities | |
7 Nov | Economy and Ecology: the most serious case of confused priorities | |
31 Oct | In response to the Queen's concern about global warming | |
29 Oct | Never mind the government, Polly - what are you and I going to do about growing inequality? | |
22 Oct | A Nobel Prize for madness: "Forget climate change" and surrender to the "Insanities of Normality" | |
12 Oct | Riding the dragon of our capitalist economy to global catastrophe | |
08 Oct | Man's "more animal than human" nature vs the need for fair and proportionate income differentials | |
30 Sept | For the planet's "Greatest Ape" the struggle for survival and advantage has moved from the natural to the socio-economic environment | |
27 Sept | The struggle for survival and advantage in his socio-economic environment is now threatening man's survival in the physical environment | |
27 Sept | A "minimum/maximum wage" and the "Moral Economy" | |
26 Sept | It is not only the tobacco industry which is now on trial | |
06 Sept | America is ripe for a second, more radical revolution | |
06 Sept | Schools as local community centres for a sustainable society | |
02 Sept | Speeding and our addiction to the motorcar | |
28 August | Why we are all still so deep in denial about global warming | |
26 August | Still scratching at the surface of the Problem of Sustainability | |
21 August | Sustainability of the American Way of Life: Time for a reality check | |
12 August | The German word for "tax" is "Steuer" which also means "rudder", i.e. a means of steering | |
10 August | George Monbiot is right about global warming being hard to accept | |
8 August | Our "more animal than human" nature and the "insanities of normality" | |
25 July | "Ticket to Mars" may well cost the Earth . . . ! | |
7 July | The "problem" with nuclear energy . . . | |
21 June | The concept of environmental sustainability not yet understood | |
10 June | The prize for "Best Species at Monitoring it's own Demise" | |
18 May | Rotten journalism is just part of the problem | |
5 May | Sex education in a sexually corrupt society | |
5 May | A more radical and philosophical approach to injustice and non-sustainablility | |
18 April | Executive pay and man's animal origins | |
14 April | Taking issue with some concluding points made in Sustainable Development Commission's report | |
13 April | Jonathon Porritt is also deluding himself | |
Trains and planes should be complementing, not competing with, each another | ||
30 March | Why, for heaven's sake, does an overcrowded Europe need immigration?! | |
30 March | The motor car - and other "insanities of normality" | |
23 March | Building an alternative, sustainable society and economy on "enlightened" self-interest | |
23 March | The biggest threat is not from terrorism, but from the non-sustainability of our economy and way of life | |
20 March | Appreciating what we've got | |
6 March | The straw(s) that broke the camel's back | |
3 March | Fair Trade and Sustainability | |
2 March | How many millionaires can our planet, Spaceship Earth, support? (to Guardian) | |
28 Feb | How many billionaires can our planet, Spaceship Earth, support? (to NYT) | |
24 Feb | A missed opportunity to face up to our fatal addiction to oil. Thank you, Bill Clinton! | |
23 Feb | The struggle for advantage in the socio-economic jungle | |
10 Feb | The consequences of wealth transfer from wealth creators to property owners | |
8 Feb | Cheap air travel and man's flight to extinction | |
26 Jan | Importance of reducing the fixed costs of driving | |
14 Jan | It is time we set up home (society) on our own - before our parent's one collapses upon us. | |
10 Jan | Man - Earth's "Greatest Ape" | |
8 Jan | Our addiction to the motor car is much more serious than we realise | |
5 Jan | Towards an Economic TOE | |
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30 Dec | Why we don't take "saving the planet" seriously | |
24 Dec | Right diagnosis, wrong cure | |
18 Dec | Flight to extinction | |
9 Nov | Global warming is as much a moral as a technological problem | |
24 Oct | What Concorde will be remembered for . . . | |
23 Oct | For some, money really does grow on trees | |
20 Oct | When economic sense amounts to social insanity | |
11 Oct | Polly pointing out the "insanities of normality" | |
11 Oct | "Money makes the world go round" - a false and dangerous analogy | |
9 Oct | Law of the (economic) jungle and the "insanities of normality" | |
9 Oct | In response to Boris Johnson's "elementary principles of conservatism" | |
7 Oct | Moore's mistake | |
6 Oct | Nonsense from No. 11 (from 3 June; a bit late, but as topical as ever) | |
26 Sept | Oil (and petrol) are stolen goods | |
22 Sept | Fairness and Sustainability | |
12 Sept | The "materialistic" interpretation of the American Way of Life | |
12 Sept | Are the Challenger and Columbia accidents also a lesson for Spaceship Earth? | |
5 Sept | The folly of subsidising cheap air travel | |
5 Sept | Letter to Polly Toynbee on creating a better (and sustainable) society | |
23 August | Let it be "God bless" rather than "God forgive" America | |
18 August | Air travel and consumer demand | |
7 August | Time to stop moaning and set about creating our own alternative, sustainable society | |
4 August | The more animal than human roots of our non-sustainable economy and lifestyles | |
29 July | The animal roots of our non-sustainability economy | |
23 July | Addicted to the motorcar | |
22 July | Why New York when Bombay is so much cheaper? | |
20 July | Western Society's substance abuse | |
18 July | No government can save us - We must save ourselves! | |
15 July | What really distinguishes man from beast | |
14 July | What the world revolves around | |
10 July | The consequences of our addiction to the "American way of life" and "doing business" | |
9 July | Why the surprise at the widening divide between rich an poor ? | |
7 July | The way to car(e)free society | |
6 July | Workaholism, non-sustainability and the "American way of life" | |
1 July | Addicted to a non-sustainable economy | |
28 June | Some advice for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | |
20 June | We for the economy, or the economy for us? | |
19 June | Workaholism is damaging our planet's vital organs! | |
16 June | For profit or not for profit? | |
11 June | Sustainable transport policy | |
10 June | Transport policy and the fate of our planet | |
4 June | The continuing need for a "maximum wage" | |
30 May | The Potters Bar rail accident, a symptom of a society rotten at its core | |
28 May | Understanding Exxon's attitude to global warming | |
23 May | A "magnificent sign of labour market flexibility . . ." | |
20 May | The need for a "maximum wage" | |
19 May | If our airports continue to grow, . . . | |
3 March | A sustainable economy will also have to be a "moral economy" | |
17 Feb | The Royal Society (of Fools) wants Britain to build more nuclear power plants | |
14 Feb | “End of the world nigh - it's official”. Just joking, of course . . . . | |
12 Feb | Who wants to be a billionaire? I don't . . . ! | |
11 Feb | Advertising-free society - a condition for sustainability | |
10 Feb | The Prince and the Noble laureate | |
10 Feb | Learning from the evil of cigarette advertising | |
7 Feb | Earth’s “greatest ape” | |
7 Feb | The need for a "maximum wage" to achieve sustainability | |
3 Feb | The corrupting influence of commercialism | |
19 jan | The economic implications of man's animal behaviour | |
15 Jan | Germans, "pessimists" or "realists" for not thinking world is developing in right direction? | |