LETTERS on  SUSTAINABILITY
  Written mainly in response to articles from a number of online newspapers 

 
 
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30 Jan   The main points I wanted to make on Home Planet about the "Sustainability Problem"
27 Jan   Driven by LOVE and VANITY to save the planet
26 Jan   By driving mass migration, globalization is destroying human, as well as bio, diversity
23 Jan   The 2012 Olympics: just ANOTHER distraction from the "Sustainability Problem"
18 Jan   Two questions for the participants at this year's Davos Meeting
17 Jan   The challenge of recognising the root cause of global warming
15 Jan   The standard model of socio-economic reality is fundamentally flawed, self-deluding and self-serving
15 Jan   The fast moving train of free-market capitalism is heading towards a broken bridge
12 Jan   Politics and leadership from an evolutionary, anthropological perspective
4 Jan   The social sciences' medieval models of social reality
26 Nov   The most important insight to be gained from human behaviour: not just men will be losers
24 Nov   Transcending party politics and the nation state via the Internet
19 Nov   Am I mad, or is it the rest of the world that is mad?
18 Nov   It is in man's "animal nature" to be dazzled by power
16 Nov   The bigger something is the easier it is to see - but not the "Sustainability Problem"
15 Nov   Global warming is just part of a more general "Sustainability Problem"
15 Nov   Using the Internet to self-organize a better, and sustainable, society
14 Nov   The relationship between family history and saving the planet
12 Nov   Explaining the Telegraph's continuing denial of the "Sustainability Problem"
6 Nov   Stepping outside the box to take a look at the "Sustainability Problem"
6 Nov    The importance of personal identity and of an easy, reliable means of verifying it
5 Nov   The City of London's money is made from plundering our planet
5 Nov   Evidence of mankind's animal origins and continued domination by his animal nature
3 Nov   Why I - and the Greens, I think - reject nuclear energy
3 Nov   Potential of Web to facilitate "self-organization" of an alternative, sustainable society
2 Nov   Science, a product of our higher, human nature, has been hijacked by our lower, animal nature
30 Oct   Are politicians at long last really facing up to the challenge of climate change?
27 Oct   Is society influenced more by mankind's human nature or by his animal nature?
23 Oct   Film and TV provide nice niches in the "socio-economic environment"
23 Oct   Love of money is love of power is what the human ape is programmed to pursue
21 Oct   Earth's "Greatest Ape" on view in the City of London
19 Oct   Humans did not evolve to live in modern society
17 Oct   The Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore in denial of non-sustainability of Western lifestyles and lifestyle aspirations
16 Oct   Nuclear double standards and governments' desire for global "street cred"
11 Sept   9/11 and other "insanities of normality" in our mad, mad, mad world
10 Sept   Taking a biological rather than a social view of human history
8 Sept   Sustainability: what went wrong - and why?
20 Aug   The vital lesson to be leaned from the tobacco racketeers
29 July   You led us into this mess, now you want to lead us out; all you really want is to "lead"
22 July   Never mind comparing our DNA. What we have in common with chimps and Neanderthaler is all too evident in our dumb-animal behaviour!
26 June   A self-assessment of Europeans, the Great White Ape (Homo stupidus economicus)
26 June   America's dependency on oil, after 30 years of living in denial
24 June    Not just the Bush Administration is in denial about the implications of global warming
5 June   AIDS and global warming: "Nature's way" of dealing with human stupidity
22 May   An important reminder of our animal origins
17 May   Evidence of man's animal origins - and threatened end
13 May   Giving airtime to lobbyists who would undermine environmental concerns
3 May   Recognising the root cause of our biggest problems
27 April   The truth is that oil is a stolen good
27 April   The 20th anniversary of Chernobyl
27 April   "Cunning" evolved to help us in the struggle for survival and advantage
25 April   American lawn mowers and the fate of our planet
21 April   "Economic forces" are located in man's animal nature
20 April   The real problem with the rich is the unsustainable example they set
20 April   Economy, ecology, sustainability and a case of misplaced priorities
13 April   Apollo 13, executive compensation and Spaceship Earth
10 April   The animal nature of executive compensation
9 April   As Darwin's champions you are missing the most important point
7 April   The Mayor of London's City for an Asian Century
6 April   Why is America not facing up to the challenge of global warming and sustainability?
31 March   The Archbishop of Canterbury and God's judgement of those responsible for global warming
30 March   My response to The Independent's call for readers' suggestions on climate change
24 March   Why it is so difficult to question our unsustainable economy
22 March   Questioning the basis of our unsustainable economy, before we wreck the planet (and our children's future) completely
18 March   The Anthropology of Sustainability in Modern Civilisation
13 March   James Lovelock's irrational advocacy of nuclear energy
13 March   The automobile industry is like a CANCER eating into the fabric of the biosphere
8 March   There is no more important post than Environment Minister
1 March   Being enthusiastic about competition and globalisation when it is not one's own job that is on the line
28 Feb   Evolution doesn't only have something to say about where we came from, but also about where we are and where we are going . . .
28 Feb   Our children are really going to love us!
8 Feb   The relationship between the natural and our artificial socio-economic environment
7 Feb   Our "moral disengagement" from the consequences of our unsustainable economy and lifestyles
2 Feb   Not just America is addicted (and not just) to oil
1 Feb   At least let us try to achieve sustainability
30 Jan   Exxon Mobil's  immoral earnings
29 Jan   Frustrating Nature's attempts to help us by reducing the birth rate
24 Jan   Our addiction, not just to the motor car
20 Jan   Wisdom-guided intelligence applied to our "addiction problem "
20 Jan   Sustainability: an addiction problem
14 Jan   The positive side to Asia's bias for baby boys
14 Jan   Short, online submission to Conservative Party's Quality of Life Policy Group
12 Jan   Social science and the "insanities of normality"
9 Jan   Not just a political, but also an actual animal: Earth's "Greatest Ape "
8 Jan   Collective denial of our addiction to an unsustainable economy and lifestyles
5 Jan   A radical reappraisal of our situation aboard Spaceship Earth
2 Jan   Simply tut-tutting grotesque wealth differentials is not enough
1 Jan   Hamish McRae's unsustainable economics
     

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28 Dec   Contribution to Conservative Party's Quality of Life Policy Group
21 Dec   Motivation in the workplace and sustainability
20 Dec   Free trade is not sustainable . . ." Period!
20 Dec   An anthropological approach to sustainability
17 Dec   Money: the most versatile form of power known to man
13 Dec   What is blinding us to the root cause of non-sustainability
12 Dec   Montreal too small a step forward to save our planet
6 Dec   A simple, but profoundly important, case of mistaken priorities
5 Dec   Global motorisation: what will we tell our children?
1 Dec   A still infantile Homo sapiens should not play with nuclear fire
30 Nov   The root cause of non-sustainability
29 Nov   Those who do care about coming generations
25 Nov    Resisting the nuclear option
23 Nov   Sustainability and the problem of familiarity and perspective
23 Nov   The rich are also a threat to themselves
21 Nov   Film stars, men, apes and a "maximum wage"
18 Nov   The blessed (soon to be cursed) generation
13 Nov   Taking issue with the Dalai Lama
5 Nov   No, Mr Porritt, Capitalism cannot save the world
2 Nov   Our addiction to and dependency upon an unsustainable economy
2 Nov   An anthropological approach to sustainability
28 Oct   Prince Charles himself must also face up to the "need for limits"
17 Oct   Building a Temple to the God of Automobility
14 Oct   The INSANITY of seeing China as the “ultimate motoring market ”
5 Oct   Understanding the blindness and stupidity of those at the top
4 Oct   Contribution to the debate on nuclear energy
28 Sept   Time to connect the dots - and face up to the picture that emerges . . .
19 Sept   In response to ZDF request for contributions to a "German Dream"
16 Sept   Deep in denial about what we are doing to our planet
9 Sept   Regardless how much oil is left . . .
8 Sept   The spirit of Open Source
8 Sept   Helping the poor AND saving the planet
6 Sept   Transcending our animal instincts
3 Sept   Taking a (commercial) interest in sport
23 August   Merck is not alone in prioritising company profit
21 August   More on the madness behind the madness of putting the economy before ecology
18 August   Madness behind the madness: putting economy before ecology
6 August   A sustainable, fair-market and fair-trade economy
4 August   The ideology of multiracialism and multiculturalism in the service of our capitalist economy
2 August   £77 million lottery win - one more example of the "insanities of normality "
29 July   The difficulty even scientists have in recognising the "insanities of normality ", and what the long struggle to ban cigarette advertising has to teach us about the struggle for sustainability (revised version of letter posted on 25 July)
25 July   What the struggle to ban cigarette advertising has to teach us about the struggle for sustainability
19 July   Medicaid, Social Security and the socio-economic environment
15 July   Homo stupidus economicus
13 July   Sustainability and a world in denial
7 July   The London Olympics - the perfect distraction from the problem of achieving sustainability
5 July   Not the poor are our main problem, but the rich
1 July   Never mind Africa. They are not the main problem. WE are.
24 June   An economy of the people, by the people, for the people
19 June   By the way, our planet is doomed . . . (unless we do something about it)
14 June   Saving our planet
8 June   Creating an alternative society based on our more enlightened, human nature
31 May   Organic food: more a philosophy (of sustainability) than a market sector
29 May   Executive pay and sustainability
23 May   The origin of our prosperity and crisis
21 May   America's "love affair" with the automobile is in fact an addiction
19 May   Climate change: a consequence of our economy being rooted in man's animal nature
18 May   What scares me about nuclear power
17 May   The animal roots and non-sustainability of our economy and way of life
10 May   Observing the observers of Spaceship Earth
10 May   Our animal nature and the socio-economic environment
9 May   Advertising has no future
2 May   What blinds us to our stupidity
27 April   Who's mad - me or the 6 wise ones?
15 April   Why doctors (and other professionals) fail
13 April   Apollo 13 and Spaceship Earth
10 April   Please, just give me a bit of space!
9 April   Global warming is just a symptom of an underlying malady
3 April   The root cause of our most pressing problems 
1 April   All efforts to combat global warming and achieve sustainability are in vain . . .
31 March   What does not bear thinking about . . . 
30 March   Facing up to the biggest threat of all
30 March   On the road to ruin
27 March   Why (not only) the tobacco industry behaves so callously
25 March   Our addiction to fossil fuels: either we get dry or we die
22 March   If President Bush realised what he is doing
21 March    Biological research that is adding insult and mockery to injury
16 March   Charles Darwin and the injury claims industry
12 March   Environmental alarmism or our addiction of a growth-dependent economy?
23 Feb   The socio-economic environment and the primitive forces shaping our world
23 Feb   Dividing up the spoils of our plundered planet
23 Feb   A classic case of denial about what we are doing to our planet, Spaceship Earth
11 Feb   Taking the controversy out of ID cards
3 Feb   In society we all play by two very different sets of rules
2 Feb   The American automobile market and the "socio-economic environment "
1 Feb   A million reasons to doubt global warming
29 Jan   Wachstum, Wachstum über alles: the demands of sustainability vs economic demands
27 Jan   For global warming and achieving sustainability it is 10 past not 5 to midnight
26 Jan   Increased immigration: essential for British and European prosperity and power?
25 Jan   The 200th anniversary of Einstein's annus mirabilis is in danger of passing unnoticed
21 Jan   Economic principles, "free lunches" and "money trees"
19 Jan   Britain's shamefully low level of recycling
18 Jan   The "central purpose" of New Labour and sustainability (in response to PM's speech)