by sustainablesociety | May 26, 2018 | Climate Change
Photo by Maid Milinkic on Unsplash The following outline of climate breakdown as a wicked problem (Rittel and Weber 1973) is based on a reading of Reinar Grundmann’s (2016) ‘Focus on Climate change and the social sciences’. The work of Jurgen Habermas (1984, 1987)...
by sustainablesociety | May 24, 2018 | Climate Change, Health, Politics
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Sustainability – what can we in health services do? This appears to be a common question, perhaps indicating that the debate has moved on from questioning the scientific basis for both climate change and the data around...
by sustainablesociety | May 21, 2018 | Politics, Sociology
Photo by Amos Bar-Zeev on Unsplash “It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals”....
by sustainablesociety | May 19, 2018 | Climate Change, Politics
Photo by Matt Collamer on Unsplash “Austerity is an instrument of malice” Richard Horton (2017) in the BMJ A sustainable society not only has to consider what its source of energy is, but also what its social cohesion might be. We have to look at social...
by sustainablesociety | May 14, 2018 | Politics
Photo by rob walsh on Unsplash The Malefactors of Great Wealth I came across a quote from a speech in Oreskes and Conway’s (2014) ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization’. At this point, I will not name or date the speechmaker. I thought it interesting as a view on...
by sustainablesociety | May 12, 2018 | Care
Photo by Dominic Hampton on Unsplash Are we really surprised that the BBC’s Panorama has again uncovered poor quality care and abuse in a home for older people? We know the roots of this, and I have previously argued that this is a political game. This is...
by sustainablesociety | May 11, 2018 | Health
Photo by Jessica Fadel on Unsplash Sustainability – what can we do? This appears to be a common question, perhaps indicating that the debate has moved on from questioning the scientific basis for both climate change and the data around environmental damage caused by...
by sustainablesociety | May 10, 2018 | Health
Photo by Blubel on Unsplash Sustainability, Health and Cycling. Following the success of cycling at the London Olympics back in 2012, which propelled Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton into the limelight, and now four Tour de France wins by British based Chris Froome...
by sustainablesociety | May 8, 2018 | Social Science
Photo by freestocks.org on Unsplash Why do we buy so much stuff? It is undoubtedly the case that millions of us buy stuff we don’t really need and then have to buy storage space to keep it. In response, a mini-industry of ‘decluttering’ coaches offer help in sorting...
by sustainablesociety | May 6, 2018 | Philosophy
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash On the BBC’s Radio 4 ‘Start the week’ recently (2017), we heard from 3 key thinkers on environmentalism. Wendell Berry: Farmer, Poet, Novelist, Essayist. Paul Bridgenorth: writer and environmentalist and Kate Raworth: Economist....
