2012 – Page 3

Ignorance by Consensus

A consensus becomes established out of the persistence of what it attempts to describe. It is inherently retrospective. It tends to assume that what has been, must continue. A couple of decades of low interest rates and stable global economic growth, and well, it becomes the natural order of things.

For Champions of Degrowth, Less Is Much More

Malgorzata Stawecka on the Common Dreams blog has published a useful overview of the degrowth movement here.…

Feasta AGM and Members’ Gathering

Saturday, November 17th 2012, at 11am, the Central Hotel (Mullen Room), Exchequer St, Dublin 2. The formal business will take about an hour, after which we will have a general discussion and also focus on current Feasta activities.

It isn’t too late…a plea to make a decision in favour of Site Value Tax

by Konrad. The Irish government has covered discussion of the proposed property tax in a blanket of silence. We fear the worst. The developers, speculators and banks are set for another bail-out by the ordinary citizen. But it is not too late yet if we wake up and demand a Site Value Tax instead of a property tax that will exempt the 1%.

Scientists cast doubt on low carbon credentials of shale gas

Business Green reports on research from the University of Manchester which indicates that Shale gas has helped the US burn less polluting coal, but that any emissions savings are being wiped out by exporting the fuel overseas.…

Hurricane Sandy? More like Hurricane Exxon

350.org have organized a petition here asking the big energy companies to stop spending millions on lobbying against climate change action, and instead donate that money to the relief effort for Hurricane Sandy. …

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