In 1972, a group of researchers published a book titled The Limits To Growth. The first conclusion was The following if The present Growth Trends in world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production, and Resource Depletion continue unchanged, The Limits To Growth on this planet will be reached sometime within The next 100 years. The book sparked a heated debate at The time, but also inspired a generation of scholars who started questioning The benefits of an ever expanding economy. Professorjoan Martinez Alier is considered one of The godfaThers of degrowth and The founder of The Barcelona School of ecological economics. He began writing about The links between The economy and The environment in The 80s. Economic Theory was based just on prices and markets and not on The real substance of The economy, which is The material flows and The energy flows. So my book was doing a Kind Of history of These critiques of The economy, and it was The first book with The title ecologi
We are trying to teach people The importance of building social, economic and environmental links with people around you. So, moving to this project gave me a lot of stability. I know that im going to have here 40 people that will be There for me. It takes two kinds of work. It takes social, political, organisation work, but also it takes a cultural shift. Is it time to embrace more radical solutions . Or are we risking too much . All of our experience historically has been that if The economy shrinks for a period of time, that results in big increases in poverty. I think degrowth, uh, underestimates The power of innovation. Degrowth underestimates The need for Investment And Degrowth underestimates The social feasibility of what They propose. There is no necessary contradiction between social and ecological objectives, i but it does require a pretty radical transformation of The way we think. About The Economy And Structure it. I in 1972, a group of researchers published a book titled
And that takes us to look at the weather prospects. Time at the weather prospects. For a look at the weather. Heres ben rich. Yesterday Northern Ireland broke its all time Temperature Record for the second time in less than a week. The question is will temperatures climb even higher today and so far in Northern Ireland the highest temperature we have seen is at armagh above 29 degrees and the warmest place of all so far today is aberystwyth at 31, compare that with Aberdeen Atjust 15 degrees. Why the difference . The Satellite Picture makes it clear, aberdeen has a lot of low cloud, Mr And Mark stretching into the North East of england, tending to retreat to the coast but lingering in places this afternoon. Elsewhere, a lot of sunshine, one or two isolated thunderstorms popping up two isolated thunderstorms popping up at some of those really heavy, quite a lot of rainfall in places, highest temperatures in the west, 32 in Northern Ireland, would once again break that record and further