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) | |