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New Thinking
Are We At An Ideological Breaking Point? Will We Breakthrough or Breakdown?
istockphoto.com The world stands at a critical juncture—facing systemic challenges that threaten the very foundations of our societies, economies, and environment. The question is: will we evolve to meet these challenges, or will we continue down a path that leads to inevitable breakdown? There are only 3 options we can collectively make in response to the challenges we face: Option 1: For those who are pro the current system, maintain the status quo. Option 2:…
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Biodiversity
Show Me The Money
istockphoto.com The chasm between aspiration and reality comes down to the stalemate on money at CoP 16. A 2020 publication,…
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Biodiversity
The Legal Trade In Wild Species: Deadly By Design
Carolyn Smith | istockphoto.com The contradictions in Colombia hosting the CDB COP16 are stark. This isn’t only about the thousands…
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Biodiversity
Indigenous Groups Are Sceptical Of CBD CoP16. Good, They Should Be.
istockphoto.com Highlighting what to monitor during CoP 16, one article asks, “Will Indigenous groups play a role in decisions?” going…
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Regulation
MMT, Unproductive Money And Unnecessary Consumption
Wara1982 | istockphoto.com As the crises of global warming and biodiversity edge ever closer to collapse, I find myself thinking,…
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Biodiversity
The Problem Of Semantics When Creating Protected Areas
Alistair Burls | istockphoto.com Undoubtedly the Federal Labor government needed a headline grabber at the start of the Nature Positive…
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New Thinking
Broken Men With Power
Motortion | istockphoto.com Many years ago I first heard the phrase, “there is nothing more dangerous than a broken man…
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Regulation
Is Moral Capitalism An Oxymoron?
The advisor demonstrates the shareholders rights book. A quote by Gus Speth, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council and…
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New Thinking
Can Australia Aspire To Be Average, OECD Tax-to-GDP Ratio Average?
Since moving to Australia from Europe, in the mid-1990s, I have always been baffled by the country’s mindset of financial…
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Collapse
Nature Positive And The Dangers Of Investing In Opaque Systems
petmal | istockphoto.com To anyone trying to understand the accelerating juggernaut of ‘Nature Positive’, and if it can genuinely help…
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Consumption
Quietly Quitting Consuming
In reality, the only hope we have to mitigate the risks associated with environmental collapse is degrowth. This cannot be…
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Biodiversity
Distraction Breeds Inaction – We Get What We Value
gorodenkoff | istockphoto.com The decision by two of the world’s biggest asset managers to quit an investor group set up…
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New Thinking
The Irrelevance Of Davos
Did Davos Meeting Peak In 1973? coolimagesco | istockphoto.com In 1971, a non-government organisation, called the European Management Forum brought…
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