by sustainablesociety | Aug 17, 2019 | Climate Change, Politics
Roger Hallam, co founder of ER, sets out the position. Watch this video. In short, he argues that the science suggests that the climate emergency will create food shortages which will usher in social collapse. The global economic system is destroying itself because it...
by sustainablesociety | Aug 8, 2019 | Politics, Uncategorized
David Livingstone Smith’s ‘Dehumanisation’ thesis includes the following: “One common misconception of my position on dehumanization is that when one dehumanizes others one conceives of them as less than fully human. My position is that when one dehumanizes others,...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 23, 2019 | Ecocide, Politics
It is with great sadness that there is news today that Polly Higgins has died aged 50. Polly was a barrister, and focused her work on ‘ecocide’. She co founded ‘Ecological Defence Integrity’. Ending Ecocide was her first book.Click To TweetSustainable Development...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 15, 2019 | Politics
The 'triple bottom line' of sustainability means addressing social, environmental as well as the economic basis for sustainability. All three have to be goals or you just do not have a sustainable society. In this context, poverty is a challenge to social...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 10, 2019 | Politics
Britain’s Private School Problem. Want to be a lawyer or in politics? Do you aspire to be an actor? Fancy yourself as a doctor, a leading news journalist or a senior military officer, or a senior civil servant? These are just some of the professions and roles...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 9, 2019 | Climate Change, Philosophy, Politics
Sustainable Development Arctic Ice: its worse than we thought…. Our ‘Lock in’ and Climate Change We have the facts coming out of our ears...and its terrifying, but the power elite seem unwilling to call a global climate emergency while some are in active denial....
