By: Stefan Thiesen
I agree with Simon – human nature stands in the way. The danger is not “clear and present” but rather abstract and remote instead. The globalized market smoothes out much of the felt effects of...
View ArticleBy: Jeremy
Yes, there are plenty of differences between the scenarios and a clear enemy is one of the biggest. It’s much easier to identify with a personal enemy than an abstract one. It explains why the US has...
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[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Kit R, Joshua Nelson. Joshua Nelson said: A dispatch from the New Home Front http://bit.ly/hpoHFF "Spades not Ships" Grow Your Own Food! #neweconomy [...]
View ArticleBy: Paul G
To the first two writers – although I to some degree agree with you, I have seen many people already changing. Many people do see the clear and present danger of climate change, and fear for the future...
View ArticleBy: Obama: clean energy is the space race of our time « Make Wealth History
[...] caught my eye is the contrast between this speech and what I was talking about yesterday, the New Home Front. There’s something profoundly British about it – the nation that survived the war,...
View ArticleBy: Stefan Thiesen
@Jeremy: the story’s about “Late lessons from early warnings” are legend (see the EU report with that very title). And the big problem here is that the process of global environmental change has an...
View ArticleBy: J R Yankovic
“Can we do it? Sure, but the steps we’re taking as a society as not big or fast enough.” Absurd as this may sound – if not perversely paradoxical – I keep wondering if the real way to go is to keep our...
View ArticleBy: Jeremy
The more I learn about the world, the more convinced I am that E F Schumacher was right – small is beautiful, and that human-scale technologies are where we should be putting our energies.
View ArticleBy: Book review: Ecological Debt, by Andrew Simms « Make Wealth History
[...] a lot more useful stuff in the book. There’s an exploration of Britain’s WWII mobilisation and whether or not it could be replicated, a legal discussion on whether or not we could be sued [...]
View ArticleBy: The New Home Front project | Make Wealth History
[...] Last year I wrote about the New Home Front, a project to look again at the history of how Britain responded to the Nazi threat, and see what lessons could be learned for today. During the war,...
View ArticleBy: Simon
Jeremy back the they did have an enemy and they could all pull together. I’m not at all sure that people will makes sacrifices when first the enemy is a weather related abstraction and two when other...
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