Unfortunately, your esteem for The Guardian is somewhat past its Best Before date.
It has reduced itself to a supine servant of the establishment, playing the part of hard hitting, lefty analysts and using the inertia of its formerly deserved reputation for actual journalism. They're doing a BBC, basically.
Thank you for the article share. Very helpful. Quite clear guardian had had teeth pulled on a number of issues especially climate but I expect if one had deep experience in an area they would see how the guardian will not step outside it’s comfort zone serving the status quo of ‘progressive liberalism’.
Hard to know where to get an overview of the general news without second guessing every headline these days....
Yeah, it's a less certain time for gathering news, but perhaps that's what we needed to shake up our complacency in corrupted, formerly trusted sources. It also makes us less more divided, to be conquered individually...
Suggestions if they're useful§:
For the UK: Novara News, Declassified UK, The Canary, DamoRants, *Council Estate Media.
For US Empire: *The Grayzone
For the US: Drop Site News, Breaking Points
For West Asia/ME: The Electronic Intifada, Middle East Eye, Dimitri Lascaris, *Palestine Will Be Free
How relevant is hard to say as some reports, like the Netherlands measuring all emissions, note: "Our report shows the Netherlands achieved absolute decoupling of production-based GHG emissions from GDP growth (1990-2022) after adjusting for cyclical fluctuations, *****with non-CO2 gases like CH4 and N2O decoupling more strongly than CO2.***** Policies have reduced emission, but more effort is needed to meet climate goals."
They're based on consumption based economy explicitly to avoid comparing the the finance economy (which is already decoupled, in another way, from consumption and manufacturing) which takes up a larger and larger fraction of many developed economies. Otherwise the results would look even better!
When GDP is used as a measure over the last 40 years, there are in many countries been large asset inflation. While the asset inflation themselves are not part of GDP there has been a lot of buying and selling of those assets and the increasing debt used to buy them is. Buying an existing asset does not increase emissions but it does represent an increase of GDP. Perhaps that is excluded in these numbers but I often wonder.
Unfortunately, your esteem for The Guardian is somewhat past its Best Before date.
It has reduced itself to a supine servant of the establishment, playing the part of hard hitting, lefty analysts and using the inertia of its formerly deserved reputation for actual journalism. They're doing a BBC, basically.
See here: https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-the-uk-security-services-neutralised-the-countrys-leading-liberal-newspaper/
Whilst that speaks to non-climate subject areas, I think it gives light to what has happened to the core of the old rag.
Thank you for the article share. Very helpful. Quite clear guardian had had teeth pulled on a number of issues especially climate but I expect if one had deep experience in an area they would see how the guardian will not step outside it’s comfort zone serving the status quo of ‘progressive liberalism’.
Hard to know where to get an overview of the general news without second guessing every headline these days....
Yeah, it's a less certain time for gathering news, but perhaps that's what we needed to shake up our complacency in corrupted, formerly trusted sources. It also makes us less more divided, to be conquered individually...
Suggestions if they're useful§:
For the UK: Novara News, Declassified UK, The Canary, DamoRants, *Council Estate Media.
For US Empire: *The Grayzone
For the US: Drop Site News, Breaking Points
For West Asia/ME: The Electronic Intifada, Middle East Eye, Dimitri Lascaris, *Palestine Will Be Free
* on Substack
§ your appreciation may vary 🙂
Thanks for those Jack. I’ll check them out.
How remiss of me to miss Chris Hedges, BettBeat Media and Jonathan Cook - all here on Substack - and covering the Evil Empire from various angles.
Decoupling is a symptom of degrowth. Don't fight good news.
If you prefer a study that includes land use, this one was from 5 years ago and included several: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/159384/1/Haberl%2Bet%2Bal_%202020%20_Environ._Res._Lett._10.1088_1748-9326_ab842a.pdf
How relevant is hard to say as some reports, like the Netherlands measuring all emissions, note: "Our report shows the Netherlands achieved absolute decoupling of production-based GHG emissions from GDP growth (1990-2022) after adjusting for cyclical fluctuations, *****with non-CO2 gases like CH4 and N2O decoupling more strongly than CO2.***** Policies have reduced emission, but more effort is needed to meet climate goals."
https://www.rabobank.com/knowledge/d011460941-assessing-decoupling-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-economic-activity-in-the-netherlands-a-1990-2022-analysis
They're based on consumption based economy explicitly to avoid comparing the the finance economy (which is already decoupled, in another way, from consumption and manufacturing) which takes up a larger and larger fraction of many developed economies. Otherwise the results would look even better!
Even more out of date, but perhaps notable since signs of decoupling were already emerging more broadly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoupling_Natural_Resource_Use_and_Environmental_Impacts_from_Economic_Growth_report
When GDP is used as a measure over the last 40 years, there are in many countries been large asset inflation. While the asset inflation themselves are not part of GDP there has been a lot of buying and selling of those assets and the increasing debt used to buy them is. Buying an existing asset does not increase emissions but it does represent an increase of GDP. Perhaps that is excluded in these numbers but I often wonder.