July 2017

The emphasis on GDP growth at all costs has led to wasteful resource use, particularly by the wealthier countries, on an unparalleled scale and without a backward glance. It is often noted that the economy is a subset of the ecological system, but equally there seems to be a belief that nature can cope with anything we throw at it.

A Chinese poster from the Korean War speaks truth to Western power: Vaccinate everyone,…

The U.S. oligarchs have greatly reduced the effectiveness of this enormous European and Russian…