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CapGlobalCarbon has been accepted as a Beautiful Solution

We're very pleased to announce that CapGlobalCarbon has been accepted to the Beautiful Solutions Lab on Naomi Klein's website. If you'd like to help promote CapGlobalCarbon, a quick and easy way to do so would be to go to the website and click on "love this idea". If enough people do this, it will be featured in the Beautiful Solutions gallery.

Unconventional gas field development and optimism bias: submission by Brian Davey to the UK Environment Agency

In this submission made in response to a drilling application by iGas, Brian Davey argues that the judgements made on behalf of IGas are flawed by what occupational psychologists and management theorists call “optimism bias”.

Shale Euphoria: The Boom and Bust of Sub Prime Oil and Natural Gas

In this update to his book Credo, Brian Davey argues that the shale industry, whether extracting oil or gas, has never been financially sustainable. How could this be? It seems paradoxical and defies ordinary economic logic.

Cheap Food Costs Dear: review of the Compassion in World Farming report by Martin Peck

Martin Peck comments that "anything I write could not do justice to this report. I can only urge everyone to read it and to try to ensure that policy makers are made aware of it." It draws attention to interrelated aspects of the many externalities of agriculture and the food system, including soil erosion and greenhouse gas emissions.

Submission to UNFCCC on climate adaptation measures and productivity in agriculture

The Feasta Climate Group, in collaboration with Stop Climate Chaos, argue in this submission that the right to food needs to be at the heart of agricultural policy. Increased productivity is not a valid goal in itself. Emphasis should instead be placed on meeting nutritional needs, agro-ecology, closed-loop agriculture, gender rights and supporting small farmers.

Privatising Air

We seem to have entered an era of 'reductio ad absurdum' capitalism. Many of life's fundamentals such as land, water and energy have been or are being enclosed and privatised. @GrahamJBarnes asks if there is any natural limit to this. Could air be privatised?

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