By Mark Bahnisch on January 26, 2010
The New Economics Foundation in the UK has released a major report – Growth Isn’t Possible. The Foundation, whose motto is ‘economics as if people and the planet mattered’, questions whether exponential economic growth is possible in the face of [...]
Posted in Climate change, Consumerism, Economics, Energy, International, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Simms, Climate change, distribution, Economics, Energy, energy policy, Growth Isn't Possible, ideology, John Stuart Mill, justice, limits to growth, nef, new economics foundation, redistribution, Victoria Johnson |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
Posted in Activism, Apocalypse, Authoritarianism, Climate change, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, History, International, Politics, Religion, Sociology, Technology | Tagged AGW, anthropogenic global warming, Apocalypse, Capitalism, Climate change, climate change denialism, collective action, conservatism, contingency, Culture, disavowal, ecology, end of history, Energy, History, ideology, necessity, neo-liberalism, non-renewable resources, peak oil, Politics, resources, Science, Slavoj Žižek, the imaginary, utopia, world politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 30, 2009
The government has released modelling showing the effects of the CPRS on household incomes, demonstrating that many low income earners will, on average, be better off financially. Predictably, this disclosure has added fuel to the fire of complaints from the [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Elections, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Polls | Tagged Andrew Norton, Climate change, compensation, consumption, cprs, Economics, Energy, ets, GST, households, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, polling, redistribution, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 22, 2009
In the wake of the failure of the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, we’re starting to see some more thoughtful analyses which go beyond the proximate causes of the imbroglio to gesture to more structural factors. Robert has already cited George [...]
Posted in Climate change, Developing world, Disasters, Economics, Energy, Environment, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Climate change, collective action, Copenhagen, Energy, George Bush, george monbiot, Naomi Klein, oil, Open Democracy, political economy, Politics, Sociology, US, USA |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 10, 2009
If anything ends up completely discrediting the worship of markets, it will probably turn out to be the vacuous and endlessly deferred nature of quasi-market “solutions” to climate change, which have little support even among those who are ideologically predisposed [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy, Environment, Markets | Tagged Climate change, emissions trading, Energy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Markets, neo-liberalism, quasi-markets |
By Robert Merkel on May 13, 2009
If you judged by press releases, you’d reckon this was the greenest budget ever. And it is indeed good in parts, though not nearly as good as you might think. The first thing to note is that the CPRS targets [...]
Posted in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Policy, Politics, Transport | Tagged australian rail track corporation, carbon capture and storage, ccs, coal, Energy, hunter valley, solar thermal, Transport |
By dk.au on August 19, 2008
WorleyParsons’ PR coup last week indicated a thirst for big interventions into an otherwise rather bleak energy policy landscape ((Two particular stories stand out: (1) Australia’s main carbon capture collective, CO2CRC, flagged the need for an additional $300m to keep [...]
Posted in Climate change, Consumerism, Culture, Disasters, Energy, Ethics, Markets, Media, Sociology | Tagged carbon pollution reduction scheme, emissions trading, Energy, energy policy, engineering solutions, Garnaut, Sociology, solar thermal, worleyparsons |
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