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 | |
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 | |