Adrienne Buller
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@Cmmonwealth | The Value of a Whale @ManchesterUP | Owning the Future @Verso | thinkin' about ecological collapse
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The Value of a Whale: on the illusions of green capitalism—@Nicklaus_Taylor speaking to @AdriBuller about her latest book. 🗓17 Nov 6-7.30pm, London Goldsmiths PERC → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/ev… All welcome. cc #GreenCapitalism #Neoliberalism #PostGrowth
The UK is *not* in a fiscal crisis. Our deficit in 2023 will be the second lowest in the G7. We can afford to support public services rather than cut them. More detail on how much 'fiscal space' we have in Carys Roberts & my paper out next week.
If you thought Canada was only bad at reducing CO2 emissions, here's how it has performed on methane when compared with other G7 countries. Story with Aaron Clark & Zahra Hirji bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In NSW, Australia, you can eradicate living organisms, as long as you purchase "species credits" of all the things you killed building your highway or gas plant or whatever Koalas go for $600 AUD (~$380USD / EUR) app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjo… Via Polly Hemming
Coming up @ King's International Development: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism with Adrienne Buller! Buller discusses limits to market-based solutions to the environmental crisis, taking how IMF estimates the monetary value of a whale as example. Organized by Devika Dutt, Nithya Natarajan as discussant.👇
one of Hunt's economic advisors on BBC Radio 4 Today has just spent 3 minutes talking about inflation in UK as a wage phenomenon, without mentioning for one second corporate profits, energy/supply shocks or the basic fact that we've had 10 years of real wage contraction in UK
🚨📢Join us for the launch of Owning the Future: Power and Prosperity in an Age of Crisis📕🚀 Feat. authors Adrienne Buller & Mathew Lawrence + discussant Hettie O'Brien Wednesday 7 December from 6-7:30pm Registration and details here: city.ac.uk/news-and-event…