Indicators and the UN Social Progress Index So how do we measure success? Recently there has been a barrage of criticism focused on the use of GDP per capita as the prime indicator of “progress”. Counting growth certainly occupies many economists, accountants and others and among other effects has produced an obsession with growth as the […]
Keep your scythe, the real green future is high-tech, democratic, and radical
All markets need governance to protect a requisite Level Playing Field. The confusion between optimism based on the promise of human scientific progress and Capitalism as the means to further human and planet welfare helps create epistemological pathologies. “Radical ecology” has come to mean a kind of left-wing back-to-the-landism that throws off consumer culture […]
Human Activity Revealed as Greatest Stressor on Earth
Humans Revealed as Greatest Stressors on Earth: Just Google It! We have seen the enemy and he/she is us. While some may debate the potential impact of climate change, the visual evidence of current human impact on the planet is clearly visible to those who will see, showing significant examples of the extent of human […]