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....
by sustainablesociety | Mar 8, 2019 | Climate Change, Politics
Sustainable Development_Deep Adaptation Deep Adaptation – Losing Hope? “I have of late—but wherefore I know not—lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 23, 2019 | Politics
Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash For God, Harry and St George? Nationalism, Authoritarianism and Fascism in England. When Nigel Farage talks about ‘picking up a rifle’ if Brexit is not delivered, do you cheer along with his audience? When the Queen is on the telly,...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 15, 2019 | Politics
On wavers of flags and shrouds. (Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash) It feels as if this ‘blessed plot, this realm’, this encrusted blood soaked earth, is being shaken from beneath my feet. Those who are doing the undermining, appear to me as wide eyed frothing mouthed...
