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Beyond Growth: The promise of a wellbeing economy

In this guest blog, econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington considers whether a transition to a Wellbeing Economy is possible and what that would mean for our society and how we interact with the natural world. Why, despite all our innovative capabilities, do problems like poverty, hunger, and environmental destruction

Scrutiny of World Bank intensifies over $24 billion in unaccounted climate funds

Scrutiny has intensified over the World Bank’s handling of climate funds, with a recent report by Oxfam revealing that between $24 billion and $41 billion in climate finance disbursed by the Bank over the past seven years remains unaccounted for. This staggering amount, equivalent to nearly 40% of all

Coal is still king despite the war on fossil fuels

Both India and China have stated quite plainly that they will not be following the example of the UK and shutting down any coal power plants in the observable future. Coal power provides the cheap energy that Chinese and other Asian manufacturers of wind and solar components and equipment – not

The Carlyle Group: An example of how the Global Public Private Partnership works

In 2009, a documentary revealed how The Carlyle Group’s power and influence in America and around the world became significantly stronger after 9/11 and the Persian Gulf War. It is an example of how public-private partnerships operate to achieve their goals and a warning of what the Global

AUKUS and AUKMIN submarine deals are robbing Australian taxpayers

Last week, Australia-UK Ministerial (“AUKMIN”) talks between UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron and Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and their Australian counterparts took place to identify new ways to grow and strengthen collaboration in key strategic areas. One of those areas was submarines. A joint statement published on 22 March 2024,

Interview: The Car Industry’s Blind Spot in Xinjiang

Many major car companies know the risks, yet a Human Rights Watch report released last month showed that these companies – including General Motors, Volkswagen, Tesla, BYD and Toyota – failed to adequately tighten controls over their supply chains to eradicate forced labor-tainted aluminum. Why? China is more than an automotive manufacturing

Amid Genocide, EU Eyes More Trade With Israel.

Ursula von der Leyen sees genocide as a business opportunity.

Voters are noticing renewables are not cheap and it’s making politicians re-think their strategy

A key claim of the green energy movement has long been that the intermittent “renewables” – wind and solar – provide the cheapest form of energy. This is not true. Climate alarmists fail to include the cost of energy storage and/or backup, the costs of overbuilding, and the costs of additional

Meet the New Normal, Same as the Old Normal: You Are Still the Enemy Within

Photo by Timur Weber: https://www.pexels.com/photo/homeless-person-sitting-on-the-sidewalk-9533102/ Today, we are witnessing the nudging (manipulation) of the population to accept a ‘new normal’ based on a climate emergency narrative, restrictions on movement and travel, programmable digital money, ‘pandemic preparedness’ courtesy of the World Health Organization’s tyrannical pandemic