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OPENING UP A SECOND FRONT AGAINST BIG AG
Government,Sustainable Food,Farming,Food
October 4, 2023
It’s slightly scary to realise that once we’ve seen off the Evil Empire of Big Oil (and we will – but just not soon enough to avoid cataclysmic climate disruption), that there’s another Evil Empire lurking in plain sight which will also need to be seen off – just as fast as is politically possible.…
Pity the Eight Billionth Child on Planet Earth
Society,Population,Farming,Nature & Natural Capital,Food
November 6, 2022
I hope you’ve got Tuesday November 15th marked up in your diary? According to the UN’s population wonks, that’s the day when the eight billionth human being will be born. Not sure how they know that quite so precisely, and I certainly don’t recall them being that precise back in 2011 when the seven…
Sort Out the Meat Monster – or We All Go Down!
July 26, 2022
Feeding the world, the way we do it today, is now the greatest single threat to the future of humankind. I’ve spent the last three weeks gorging myself on a massive meat feast. Not physically, but cerebrally. Driven, as has so often been the case, by the insouciant ignorance of our recently…
Re-inventing the ‘Limits to Growth’ debate
Politics,Sustainable Food,Economics,Farming
June 1, 2016
Still barely a mention about the environment in the Referendum campaign – just another reminder that these issues still have very little cut-through in UK politics. Beyond the debate about climate change (which, to be fair, does get some cut-through, though rarely in ways that would be desirable),…
Farm Animals in the Bigger System
June 12, 2014
“The problem about sustainability is that it’s all about systems thinking. And the modern world just doesn’t do systems thinking – whether you’re talking science, policy-making, health, education – or anything else that matters, for that matter!” That little observation was dropped into the middle…