LETTERS on  SUSTAINABILITY
  Written mainly in response to articles from a number of online newspapers 

 
 
 
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2 Feb In response to question of who benefits from the UK's benefits system?
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18 Aug A fundamental flaw in our financial and economic system?
14 Aug Climate change and media dependency on the status quo
20 July Global economics has same growth curve as culture of microorganisms
5 July Social Darwinism is real and driving us towards catastrophe
5 July The primary function of the nation state is not to serve, but to exploit society
29 June The existing socio-economic environment is an evolutionary cul-de-sac

25 June

All we need do is identify and organize ourselves - and the revolution can begin!
17 June The super-rich are a symptom of a sick society
11 June   The inherent unjustness, inhumanity and non-sustainability of capitalism
5 June   Not just tobacco, but all industries are bound to give absolute priority to economics
5 June   The dragon of free-market capitalism cannot be tamed
30 May   An "ugly heart" to go with the "ugly face" of capitalism
30 May   The Internet, biometrics and the grass-roots democratic self-organization of society
24 May   A comparison between human (Western) civilization and a culture of microorganisms
11 May   An explanation and alternative for the "rat race"<
27 April   The implications of (the tobacco) industry's disregard for human life
26 April   Britain is already natively and unsustainably overpopulated
17 April   UN Security Council acknowledges importance of climate change for security
17 April    Why Reith lecturer, Jeffrey Sachs, is an internationally-renowned economist and advisor to many governments
19 March    Herbert Gruhl said it all: "Ein Planet wird geplundert" (The Planet is Being Plundered)
18 March   The madness that opposes natural population decline
6 March    The importance of "honour" and "respect" in determining human behaviour and shaping society
27 Feb   The analogy of free-market consumer capitalism as a form of CANCER
20 Feb   Riding the capitalist dragon to our doom
15 Feb   The "Sustainability Problem" - in a nutshell!
13 Feb   After c. 14 billion years of cosmic evolution, is humankind to commit self-genocide?
12 Feb   A better "model" of society
8 Feb   Slow down, you move too fast, We gotta make resources last . . .
4 Feb   When are we going to wake up to the ROOT CAUSE of the "Sustainability Problem"?
     
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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