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27 January 2021, The Conversation: We are the 1%: the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet. Among the many hard truths exposed by COVID-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. … Continue reading →

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2 April 2020, Renew Economy: 2020: When the great disruption began. It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars … Continue reading →

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12 March 2020, The Conversation, 1 million rides and counting: on-demand services bring public transport to the suburbs. The technology-driven revolution in urban transport is largely centred on the inner city. It has completely missed the suburbs, which lack the public transport services and … Continue reading →

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9 August 2017 By Dr Haydn Washington for Dick Smith Fair Go,The Insanity of Endless Growth, . The world is faced with a predicament of grave enormity – yet one rarely spoken of. The United Nations (UN), almost all governments, business, and media and both the political Left and the Right are busy extolling (even praising) ‘endless growth’. Yet we live on a finite planet, so clearly endless physical growth is impossible, unsustainable and, in fact, insane. I often give public talks on sustainability and ask the audience: ‘On a finite planet who thinks we can keep growing physically forever?’ Nobody raises their hands. So why then is our economy and society based on what many individually know is impossible? An excellent question – but one hardly ever asked in mainstream economics (Daly, 2014). Even the UN forgets to ask the question – and to answer it.    Read More here

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