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The ‘Nudge Unit’ Wants Banks to Track Your Carbon Footprint

Bridget Ryder November 12, 2022

When using their bank or credit cards, test subjects received messages at the point of purchase that informed them on how much carbon they had either saved or emitted.

Energy Transition as Class Warfare and National Subordination

Carlos Perona Calvete October 5, 2022

The new enclosures and ‘fourth industrial revolution’—with its counterfeit morality, its saccharine pseudo-ethical appeals to inclusivity and saving the planet—may not need a large force, but they do need a disciplined, dependent population.

Farmers Fighting the Green Revolution

Bridget Ryder July 22, 2022

For the last seventy years, agricultural policy in Europe and elsewhere has been driving efficiency and increased production, much to the detriment of societal and environmental health. But not all the blame rests on the shoulders of the technocrats. They weren’t the ones who started the revolution that made Spanish farmer Artero cry.

EU Commission Warns of Social Strife This Winter

Bridget Ryder July 11, 2022

Frans Timmermans, the executive vice-president of the European Commission, said that making people suffer this winter in order to stay on track with the energy transition would ultimately be disastrous for solving ‘the climate crisis.’

Rewilding and the Future of Humankind

Sebastian Morello July 2, 2022

Restoring our proper relationship with the natural world, it must be asserted, does not entail a retreat from nature, but a renewed immersion in its mystery and a humble submission to its laws.

God, Profit, and Capitalism

Sven R. Larson June 7, 2022

Capitalism does not destroy other values, nor does it come without respectable merits. Quite the contrary: the profit motive has elevated human existence to unprecedented levels. We can feed more mouths, cure more of the sick, educate, and elevate more people than we have ever been able to do. The problem lies instead in the fallibility of human nature.

Audit: Big Errors in EU Climate Spending

Sven R. Larson June 2, 2022

According to the auditors, the specific efforts to ‘green’ agriculture have had negligible ‘climate action’ effects.

Protecting Forests from Top-Down EU Policy Planning

Pieter Cleppe March 10, 2022

A better strategy for the EU could be to clean up its own house first. The enormous amounts the EU spends on agriculture, a few hundred billion over seven years, heavily subsidize intensive agriculture, with 80% of EU cash going to 20% of the recipients.

EU Commission’s Gas and Nuclear Rules Conflict with EIB’s

Bridget Ryder February 6, 2022

An EU official defended the decision to include natural gas and nuclear energy, telling journalists: “We have taken a realistic and pragmatic approach to the inclusion of nuclear and gas in the taxonomy.”

Nuclear Power and Natural Gas: Green Energy?

Bridget Ryder January 4, 2022

Many EU countries support a green designation for nuclear power. France has made nuclear energy the pillar of carbon-neutral energy production, and Czechia and Hungary also rely heavily on nuclear energy. Germany opposes this, but approves of a green label for natural gas as a transition energy.

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