COP27: Almost nothing–but something real–changed
The loss-and-damage breakthrough at the latest global climate confab has put equity front and center of the debate.
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Why Social Mobility is a Lousy Idea
Jeremy Corbyn’s announcement last month that a Labour government would replace social mobility with social justice as a policy benchmark raised more than a few eyebrows. It goes against received wisdom and bipartisan consensus that social mobility is a good thing.
Only Possible to Feed People Sustainably in an Equitable Society
A recent report from the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirms that the current food system isn’t sustainable neither for the environment nor for our health. Organic agriculture, conservation farming and agro-ecology are key technologies for a transition to a sustainable food system, which also has to shun artificial nitrogen fertilizers.
Breaking the Chains of Delusion
Many people think that technological development follows a path directed by quasi-natural laws that head into one and only one direction – called “progress” – which is: to use more technology, more complex technology, more expensive technology, more powerful technology.
In Conversation: Justice & Equity After Fossil Fuels
The transition to 100% renewable energy raises profound questions for the future of justice and equity…
Postcard from Medellín: A Big WUF for Urban Equity
…if we invest in the most marginalized communities within our cities that are trapped behind invisible social and economic borders, everyone, including the planet, benefits.
Stop Feeding the Elephant
Our common future lies with an economy beyond the accumulation of wealth and, therein, the debt structures that support this accumulation.
Mining the world to death
The agricultural revolution produced the first systematic extractive model, which set us on a road to eventual collapse.