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Andrew SimmsAndrew Simms is policy director and head of the climate-change forum at the New Economics Foundation (nef). He is the author of Ecological debt: the health of the planet and the wealth of nations (Pluto, 2005). Recent articlesThe climate-change choice The Stern review on the economics of climate change is a "flawed masterpiece" that avoids the crucial questions about saving the planet, says Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation. Capitalism, the environment, and sustainable development: replies to Jonathon PorrittA new book by the pioneering green campaigner Jonathon Porritt, Capitalism As If the World Matters, calls on environmentalists to create a politics of sustainability that accepts the reality of capitalism. Environmental thinkers and activists from a variety of perspectives respond. Ecological debt and climate changeLiving within ones resources is the first lesson of mainstream economics. What if we applied the same lesson to the global household? The accidental internationalistsFor this proponent of a radical reform of the worlds economic and political relationships, the defence of globalisation by its privileged partisans is deeply unconvincing. The fruits of the process - unfree trade, unequal rules, unsustainable poverty and destructive climate change - make a fresh model, of local empowerment and planned internationalism, long overdue. |
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