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"Le projet actuel dit de « partenariat transatlantique pour le commerce et l’investissement » (PTCI, en anglais TTIP) est pire que l’AMI (billets suivants). Pour des raisons que je reporte en annexe 2, j’éviterai de le qualifier d’accord de « libre-échange ». Je trouve que c’est lui faire trop d’honneur que de l’associer au beau mot de liberté, et même à celui d’échange. Je parlerai d’accord de dérégulation, de suppression des protections collectives, de libre dumping ou libre jungle, de liberté d’exploitation des peuples par les multinationales, de « Grand Marché Transatlantique » (GMT), de l’Europe livrée aux appétits américains, etc. Je justifierai tout cela."
Nafeez Ahmed: NSA Prism is motivated in part by fears that environmentally-linked disasters could spur anti-government activism
On Thursday, the Center for American Progress released a new report that outlines plan for jobs, business, and a growing economy called “300 Million Engines of Growth.” It notes that climate change’s “costs to businesses, families, and government ...
"This report shows that the path we are currently on is more likely to result in a temperature increase of between 3.6 °C and 5.3 °C but also finds that much more can be done to tackle energy-sector emissions without jeopardising economic growth, an important concern for many governments".
"If you stand inside a large corporation and ask how to make a sustainable economy, the conversation has to fit itself into the frame of profit maximization. (“Here’s how you can make more money through sustainability practices.”) Asking corporations to change their fundamental frame is like asking a bear to change its DNA and become a swan."
Several years of stalled progress means EU should consider adopting a target for CCS to accelerate the technology
"What makes the inaction more remarkable is that we have been hearing so much hysteria about the dire consequences of piling up a big burden of public debt on our children and grandchildren. But all that is being bequeathed is financial claims of some people on other people. If the worst comes to the worst, a default will occur. Some people will be unhappy. But life will go on. Bequeathing a planet in climatic chaos is a rather bigger concern. There is nowhere else for people to go and no way to reset the planet’s climate system. If we are to take a prudential view of public finances, we should surely take a prudential view of something irreversible and much costlier.."
The trend of rising US dependence on imports of foreign oil and natural gas has been abruptly reversed, as a result of falling domestic demand for oil and increasing domestic supplies.
A common refrain, from skeptics to allies alike, is that renewable energy is a great idea, but not feasible because oil, gas, and coal will always be cheaper.
In recent times, the issue of sustainable consumption has gained renewed attention and relevance.
We need a no-growth development model as an alternative to an austerity model which will do nothing except bring ordinary people hardship and misery – offering them no hope and no way of coping with their problems.
The central theme is not global warming but resource depletion on a planet already consuming 50 percent more than its capacity.
Reflections by the author of the "Hirsch Report" on the Conference “Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportunities for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries.”
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"The model predicts that the population will likely reach between 9 billion and 13 billion by 2100."
George Osborne's plan to drive down energy prices through a shale gas revolution was dealt a blow when Britain's sole active shale gas producer said that even a boom would have a “basically insignificant” impact on prices.
Vor vier Jahrzehnten schreckte der Club of Rome mit dem Report „Die Grenzen des Wachstums“ die industrialisierte Welt auf. Jetzt zeichnen die Forscher ein noch düstereres Bild von der Zukunft.
Companies in the financial sector should be environmentally responsible, but that alone is not enough to create viable corporate sustainability.
"In a report on the Electricity Market Reform published today, the Committee on Climate Change presents new analysis showing that there are significant economic benefits from investing in a portfolio of low-carbon technologies through the 2020s rather than investing in gas-fired generation."
"Might there be more agile, dependable, and less awkward ways to conduct the public business in the long emergency that do not require authoritarian governments, the compromises and irrational messiness of politics, or even reliance on personal sacrifice?"
So is the austerian impulse all a matter of psychology? No, there’s also a fair bit of self-interest involved. As many observers have noted, the turn away from fiscal and monetary stimulus can be interpreted, if you like, as giving creditors priority over workers. Inflation and low interest rates are bad for creditors even if they promote job creation; slashing government deficits in the face of mass unemployment may deepen a depression, but it increases the certainty of bondholders that they’ll be repaid in full. I don’t think someone like Trichet was consciously, cynically serving class interests at the expense of overall welfare; but it certainly didn’t hurt that his sense of economic morality dovetailed so perfectly with the priorities of creditors.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d ? Not tho’ the soldier knew Some one had blunder’d: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
"The world has seen a hundred financial crises in the past three decades. In this column, Nobelist Joe Stiglitz argues that we could have done much more to prevent this crisis and to mitigate its effects. Looking ahead, we can do much more to prevent the next one. This is a chance to revolutionise flawed economic models, and perhaps exit from an interminable cycle of crises."
European Economic Forecast - spring 2013 - The EU economy: adjustment continues
Despite the clean technology of the past decade, we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels more than ever before
Businesses will stick to the status quo whatever the disastrous consequences unless we build a credible sustainability vision
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