For decades people have worked to cancel unpayable poor country debt, but Andrew Simms explains that there is a larger, different problem – the ecological debt crisis of rich countries that now threatens the international community. He argues that this ecological debt provides the essential paradigm to analyse the predicament of the global economy. Andrew Simms is the Policy Director of nef (the new economics foundation) and heads its programme on Climate Change. His recent reports include ‘The End of Development? Global warming, disasters and the greeat reversal of human progress’ and ‘Environmental Refugees – the case for recognition’.
2004 Cafes
- The terrorist money trail
- Haiti: First independent Black Republic
- Who profits from famine?
- Where is liberalisation taking the British Media?
- Contemporary forms of slavery: A political economy
- How UK Foreign investment creates refugees and Asylum Seekers
- The Tobin tax revitalised
- How enlargement will transform the European Union
- Oil in the Caucasus: Sowing the seeds of conflict
- Playing by the rules? Guantanamo, Iraq and the future of International Law
- One State Palestine: Who’s afraid of Democracy?
- Sale of the Century
- Rosia Montana: Mining for gold in the 21st Century
- Ecological debt: What future for our children?
- The personal and political imagination
- Can the UN survive the 21st Century