A review of ‘Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System’
Ian Angus’s latest book explores metabolic rifts and capitalism’s fundamental conflict with the environmental limits of our planet
Read moreDetailsBryn Glover is a retired NHS worker who spent 40 years in the service, mostly concerned with scientific diagnostic testing and treatment.
Ian Angus’s latest book explores metabolic rifts and capitalism’s fundamental conflict with the environmental limits of our planet
Read moreDetailsIn international trade, one side always comes out worse, an ‘unequal exchange’ that creates migrants: fairness must be restored
Read moreDetailsAddressing climate crisis is too urgent to allow it to be ambushed by a bureaucratic agreement process, vested interests or...
Read moreDetailsThe anniversary of a key piece of socialist literature inspires an argument for a fairer financial future that has never...
Read moreDetailsFrom Iran to Ukraine, vaccines to climate, Trump’s erratic moves risk global stability – and may mask deeper financial motives
Read moreDetailsTrump’s tariffs represent a breach of the neoliberal consensus, is this merely the adoption of new rules to keep capitalism...
Read moreDetailsIn nine scientifically agreed areas of environmental concern, immediate remedial action might help save the planet – but it’s not...
Read moreDetailsExtreme political underfunding of the public sector based on capitalist economic theory has failed: a new consensus is needed
Read moreDetailsWhat practical steps can be taken to reduce inequality and ensure public services thrive?
Read moreDetailsBritain is afflicted by rampant income inequality: a simplified tax system is the answer
Read moreDetailsSince WWII, the significance of nuclear weapons has been entirely political, with no military value proven – CND's renewed relevance
Read moreDetailsPoliticians are very adept at evading deeper questions of climate justice and social justice but to ignore them seals our...
Read moreDetailsCapitalism no longer needs perpetual economic expansion, or ‘growth’; what’s needed now is positive, controlled degrowth
Read moreDetailsBryn Glover explains that while economic growth is not sustainable, what comes next?
Read moreDetailsWith six planetary boundaries at the point of no return the stark consequences of climate change are accelerating
Read moreDetailsBryn Glover explores the reasons behind migration and what European countries should be doing to help
Read moreDetailsIn the run-up to next month’s 75th anniversary of the founding of the NHS Bryn Glover tracks its gradual decline...
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