Simon Mair

Dr Simon Mair is a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. He works in the systems analysis strand of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and is co-investigator on “Powering Productivity”.

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System change, not climate change! What 'The Good Place' can teach us about climate action

It’s pointless to blame Extinction Rebellion activists for eating McDonalds. Like in the TV show The Good Place, it’s the system that’s broken.

By Simon Mair

/ 16 Oct 2019

System change, not climate change! What 'The Good Place' can teach us about climate action

Growing pain: the delusion of boundless economic growth

Gambling on a future of continued economic growth is a bad bet with long odds and extremely high stakes.

By Ian Christie, Simon Mair and Ben Gallant

/ 26 Sep 2019

Growing pain: the delusion of boundless economic growth

In the age of extinction, who is extreme? A response to Policy Exchange

Extinction Rebellion’s program is coherent and necessary, we should defend it from the right-wing think tank's attacks.

By Simon Mair and Julia Steinberger

/ 23 Jul 2019

In the age of extinction, who is extreme? A response to Policy Exchange