Climate change and the strange death of libertarianism
It wasn’t that long ago that everyone was talking about the “libertarian moment” in the US. Now, libertarianism/propertarianism is pretty much dead.
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Blackrock and the AAA rating
Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager has announced some big steps towards divestment from thermal coal.
Economic estimates don't account for tragic bushfire toll
That;s the headline for my latest piece for Independent Australia Obviously, costs like ecosystem destruction and the deaths of millions of native animals can’t easily be put into the framework of the National Accounts. But, even if we stick to the National Accounts, Gross Domestic Product is a terrible measure of economic welfare.
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Consumed by fire (crosspost from Crooked Timber)
(Most of this will be familiar to regular readers of this blog. But it seems simplest to crosspost the whole thing, rather than do a separate version).
On CNN
If all goes to plan, I will be on CNN International Newsroom at 3pm Brisbane time talking about economic impact of #AustralianFires My preliminary estimate of costs, at least $100 billion.
Australia is promising $2 billion for the fires. I estimate recovery will cost $100 billion
That’s the self-explanatory headline for a piece I wrote for CNN Business in the US. Major contributors to this number, beyond the direct loss of property include
Slow Burn
That’s the headline for my latest piece in Inside Story, with the summary
Hundreds more deaths will result from the particulates created by Australia’s current crop of bushfires
Old men behaving badly (3rd repost)
I first posted this in 2011, reposted it in 2014 and again in 2019. Sadly, nothing changes, except that the old men keep getting stupider and behaving worse.