Bryn Glover

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Trump and neoliberalism

1 week ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

The economic model known as capitalism has been with us for many centuries in many different forms. Perhaps one of the earliest recognised and recorded manifestations would be the Hanseatic League, dating from the 14th century, in which a dozen or more seaports around the Baltic and North Seas co-operated in mutually beneficial trading arrangements.
Sustainable planetary boundaries: an introduction

1 month ago | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

During the first decade of this century, specialist scientific groups around the globe met independently, but with common purpose. Their objective was to attempt to quantify the precise mess that we had got ourselves into with respect to our one-and-only planet. The outcome of these meetings was universal agreement on nine areas of significant concern (agreed c.2010), where human actions were impacting on the natural world and where immediate action was imperative.
Lies, damned lies and political underfunding of the public sector

Jun 26, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

Every general election brings out the liar and the braggart in all politicians, and this 2024 election is no different, indeed the lies and the posturings are generally greater than usual. The two big areas where the deceit is greatest are in initiatives to tackle environmental damage and in the future funding of all our public services.
Mending inequality in the UK - part two

May 14, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

There is nothing natural or innate about whether a nation takes a high-tax/high-spend course, or a low-tax/low-spend one; it is a purely political decision. The people of Sweden, for example, happen to have chosen the former and are justly proud of their public services.
Mending inequality in the UK: part one - changes since WWII

Mar 25, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

The UK survived the hardships and demands of the last world war for many reasons, prominent amongst which must be the perceived need for everyone to act in the common good. We endured shortages and strict rationing (rather than permitting a free-for-all grab, or the allocation of scarce resources to those best able to pay for them) because we believed, collectively and generally, that we were “all in this together”.
Reflections on Trident and disarmament: a personal journey with CND

Mar 4, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

The recent second failure of a Trident missile to test-fire properly has prompted a personal review of more than 60 years’ membership the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) – I still have the battered pin badge I acquired, as a student, on the Aldermaston March of 1960. The arguments forwarded in those early days were based mostly on the morality of owning nuclear weapons, and were consequently often difficult to make.
Clarity in green politics: does climate justice imply social justice?

Jan 21, 2024 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

It is obvious to anyone who has had any sort of long-term involvement in environmental politics and climate justice that popular perceptions have changed considerably over the years of the new millennium.
Business as usual, or positive degrowth: part two, degrowth

Nov 27, 2023 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

When discussing the ‘success’ of any organism on Earth, biologists may refer to the concept of its ‘evolutionarily stable strategy’, or ESS. This is an indication of for how long any particular species has survived in harmony and equilibrium with its chosen environment. Amongst the leaders would be sharks, who have existed more or less unchanged for about 450 million years, whereas crocodiles, for example, are relative newcomers at about 95 million years.
Business as usual, or positive degrowth: part one, capitalism

Nov 23, 2023 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

Most of the major trading nations of the world now operate, as they have for centuries, under the economic system called ‘capitalism’. A simple definition of capitalism is that it is the investing of money to get more money. In simplistic practical terms, if a person were to invest £100 at 10% for one year, that person would expect, at the end of the year, to receive £110.
Planetary boundaries and political expediency

Oct 24, 2023 | yorkshirebylines.co.uk | Bryn Glover

In 2009, a group of 28 internationally recognised environmental scientists met at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, chaired by its director Johan Rockström, to consider the effects of human activity on nine areas of our global environment.