On April 24, Feasta’s Anne Ryan spoke with the Irish Examiner’s Mick Clifford in a podcast on the subject of “Enough is Plenty”: https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/mick-clifford-podcast-anne-ryan–when-enough-is-plenty-995922.html?fbclid=IwAR22NbOwyi3fckXxlgz0IUL7qme3BiwPUwRcrfa_ZGYJiybOtedrFGlXPB0…
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GE 2020 Election asks: Cap carbon, introduce safe-haven banking, basic income and land value tax.
The Green News has published a summary of Caroline Whyte's policy proposals for candidates in the coming Irish general election.
Eco-anxiety: Climate breakdown is taking its toll on people’s mental health
In the first of a series of Irish Times articles entitled “Changing World, Changing Minds: Understanding our emotional response to the climate emergency”, psychologist John Sharry (who is a Feasta trustee) explores the effect that climate anxiety can have on mental health and explains why it is important to accept and channel our negative emotions: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/parenting/eco-anxiety-climate-breakdown-is-taking-its-toll-on-people-s-mental-health-1.4051378.…
Opinion piece on degrowth in the Irish Times
Jason Hickel provides a good overview of the arguments in favour of degrowth, including its potential social benefits, in an opinion piece on September 9. …
Why we should buy food from local producers
Good opinion piece in the Irish Times from Talamh Beo’s Manchán Magan, explaining the benefits of Community Supported Agriculture: “This localised, diverse farming was how food was always produced until international seed and chemical fertiliser behemoths began luring farmers towards new soil-depleting practices, with the promise of increased profits – not admitting that it was at the expense of the health of the soil and the surrounding environment”.…
‘Degrowth’ and the climate crisis: Irish Times letter
Feasta’s Anne Ryan had a letter published in the Irish Times on September 2, in which she challenges the argument that economic contraction must always cause catastrophic suffering:
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/degrowth-and-the-climate-crisis-1.4002782…
