Awakening to a new economics
Mark Dick, a GP from Ballymena, introduces his book Towards Oikos. Two of the biggest existential threats to humanity are potential conflict arising from poverty/inequality and global ecological damage. (Nuclear … Continue reading Towards Oikos – an introduction to a more human economy
The idea of Universal Basic Services (UBS) was only coined in 2017, but has been taken up unusually quickly. It’s given a name to something people were already aspiring to. … Continue reading Book review: The case for Universal Basic Services
Bill McKibben is a leading American environmentalist and author of several bestselling titles on climate change, including the first popular explanation of the problem, The End of Nature. Among his … Continue reading Economic growth, wild nature and the Book of Job
I was reading the book God Unbound, by Brian McLaren last week. Subtitled ‘Theology in the Wild’, it’s a reflection on a trip to the Galapagos, combining travel writing with … Continue reading Do not worry about the GDP
One of England’s founding documents is the Charter of the Forest. Signed in 1217, it guaranteed a series of rights of access to the forests. It set a benchmark for … Continue reading Book review: Plunder of the Commons, by Guy Standing
