More importantly, double the CO2 compared to UK-grown apples.Still better than broccoli from New Zealand, presumably.
Kate Raworth's Doughnut Economics is worth a look.
Doughnut (economic model) - Wikipedia
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What sort of "actual economics" do you think needs to be added to it?I had a brief look at it a while back. Aside from the perfectly good takedown of the current economic order, there appeared to be almost nothing in terms of actual economics there.
Maybe it's mostly an attempt to get some kind of ball rolling.
What sort of "actual economics" do you think needs to be added to it?
What do you count as "actual economics"?Any.
Like I said, it was a fairly brief look but please point out any I have missed.
What do you count as "actual economics"?
Please do.You need me to Google "economics" for you?
Please do.
Reduce Carbon Footprint says the bbc. Carbon footprint is a marketing con. From oil companies.
It certainly helps Governments and the people who own them to offload the problem...That as maybe, but it is a shorthand term within a far more complex problem.
If it helps the general public & government / officialdom understand the problem, to devise ways and means to solve the climate emergency plus actually actively doing something towards the solution(s) ...
Then I'm all for it !
Doesn't work. Still unclear what you mean by 'actual economics'. I'm not an economics student so was hoping for something a bit more concrete.LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.lmgtfy.app
It certainly helps Governments and the people who own them to offload the problem...
Doesn't work.
Thanks for the detailed answer. I've got to finish it myself actually. If it contained the detail you're looking for then it'd probably be 10 times longer and as you said earlier, that's probably not the point. It's more - at a high level here's how you think about things differently in terms of economics. I also agree that it's a great takedown of the current orthodoxy.Still on IE?
Give Wikipedia a go....
What I am saying is that the book, as far as I can see, is offering a framework for asking certain kinds of questions, esp. in terms of development planning, because current priorities are not in line with either immediate or long-term human wellbeing, and from what I have seen, that bit is done well.
What it doesn't seem to do is answer any questions about what any of this would look like. I'm not sure whether it is actually trying to (Wikipedia's entry on it suggests that it is not), but if not then the title and blurb strike me as a little dishonest. Saying that economics is broken (however well you say it), and saying what you would prefer economics to prioritise, isn't in itself a new kind of economics.
Now, I'm not an economist either, but I'm familiar with what economics discussions broadly look like. For example, Raworth talks about growth not being a prime driver for established economies, but remaining necessary for developing economies, yet there are no mentions on the controls on capital movement necessary to achieve such a state of affairs in this kind of two-tier setup <is cross-boundary trading of shares and derivatives allowed to happen?>. It seems to skip over the Government controls on resource use that would seem necessary in more developed (non-growth) regions too. I'm also not clear on whether strongly negative interest rates would be necessary in order to afford to, say, buy a house in one of the richer countries once the previous problems have presumably been solved, and who could be expected to grant a loan in such a case, and whether further levers would be used to destroy the resultant money released into the economy etc. (if thinking in terms of 'steady state' type economic theory, and I'm unclear on whether that is the idea either).
Even very basic things like how prices are set seem to be glossed over. I'm not sure whether it means we should assume that things generally stay as they are if something is not mentioned.
Etc.
But I haven't read all of it, like I said, so happy to be corrected. I looked at some videos where the author talks about the subject and haven't found anything to change my impression.
Tax the rich and throw money at alleviating as much as we can as quickly as we can. $Trillions, whatever it takes. Incentives here, help there.
Just read this in the rag " our survival depends on disobedience".Just to speak to that, I've seen it mentioned in a few places, and recently here:
"In 2004, the advertising company Ogilvy & Mather, working for the oil giant BP, took this blame-shifting a step further by inventing the personal carbon footprint. It was a useful innovation, but it also had the effect of diverting political pressure from the producers of fossil fuels to consumers. The oil companies didn’t stop there. The most extreme example I’ve seen was a 2019 speech by the chief executive of the oil company Shell, Ben van Beurden. He instructed us to “eat seasonally and recycle more”, and publicly berated his chauffeur for buying a punnet of strawberries in January."
Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction | George Monbiot
Instead of focusing on ‘micro consumerist bollocks’ like ditching our plastic coffee cups, we must challenge the pursuit of wealth and level down, not upwww.theguardian.com
I'd like to see a proper public education campaign on cars idling. Idling already breaks the law, but I think few know that, and fewer still know why. It's a small element of even the transport footprint, let alone the whole country, yet it'd help engender that "every little helps" mentality we're going to need.
None of them.Cars will be around for the forseeable, in any event are they the biggest polluter? Electric cars just shuffle the problem from one area to another.
What's the biggest issue; cruise liners, private mega yachts, private jets and or helicopters, space tourists, delivery vehicles?
This is why I aimed relatively low with the anti-idling idea. This is something I can see the current government getting behind, although some there might dismiss it as too big state. The only negative that some may perceive is that keeping the engine running prevents the car getting cold whilst waiting. I believe this theory has been well and truly debunked for all the most common lengths of time spent waiting in a car, that is, under half an hour.I mean never going to happen, but think it needs to and should.
Do not encourage pupils to join climate protests, says draft DfE strategy
Document says it would not be appropriate for schools to encourage children to join campaignswww.theguardian.com