Please imagine you were able to earn a living in ANY feasible occupation of your choice...
What feasible occupation, if anything, would you MOST like to do?
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SAMPLE: n=2094 adults
DATE: 24th of July 2019
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Below are thoughts (links and snippets) on what you might do to COMPEL CLIMATE ACTION IN THE CORONAVIRUS RECOVERY through legal means
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A CAMPAIGN TO:"Use the government's own tools (Green Book, Valuations, Benefits/Costs analysis, etc) to help ensure there is no return to unsustainables" in THE POST-CORONAVIRUS ECONOMY?
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NEWS / ITEMS:
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Climate change: A new subject for the law | UNESCO | Mar 2019 https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-3/climate-change-new-subject-law
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Governments and firms in 28 countries sued over climate crisis - report | Climate change | The Guardian | 4 Jul 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/04/governments-and-firms-28-countries-sued-climate-crisis-report
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"We are seeing increasing public and business support for smart climate policies, including carbon tax proposals like the [bipartisan US bill] [..] introduced today [26-Sep-2019]" | said Andrew Steer, president of the World Resources Institute | https://www.wri.org/news/2019/09/statement-another-bipartisan-carbon-pricing-bill-introduced-house
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And selfishly pursuing particular interests risks “damaging the peaceful coexistence and development of future generations” | said Pope Francis, in his Easter Blessing. | https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2020-04/pope-easter-urbi-et-orbi-blessing.html
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The Netherlands Supreme Court, in the Urgenda case last year, ordered [in December 2019] the government to step up cuts in emissions.
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Heathrow third runway: UK government actions ruled "illegal" | Friends of the Earth | https://friendsoftheearth.uk/climate-change/Heathrow-third-runway-UK-government-actions-ruled-illegal
A change in the wind? Heathrow expansion policy ruled unlawful in victory for climate campaigners | Hogan Lovells Publications | 16 March 2020 https://www.hoganlovells.com/en/publications/a-change-in-the-wind-heathrow-expansion-policy-ruled-unlawful-in-victory-for-climate-campaigners
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Legal action launched against UK's HS2 project by Chris Packham. www.ft.com. | 3 Mar 2020 | He is seeking a judicial review ...
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‘Model statute’ to hold governments to account on climate change | Launched by International Bar Association | 18 February 2020 https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/model-statute-to-hold-governments-to-account-on-climate-change/5103130.article |
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FACTORS/CONSIDERATIONS:
- Climate : Paris Agreement
- Duty of care
- Town & Country / Planning Act
- Climate Change Act
- Stakeholders (future/children, remote/foreign).
- Driving forces (consumption, myopia, preferences, perverse incentives, population).
- Covid19 : recovery : shutdown : benefits [retain] (/costs) [avoid].
- Only 9% of Britons want to return to "normal" in post-coronavirus life | news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-only-9-of-britons-want-life-to-return-to-normal-once-lockdown-is-over-11974459 | survey human likes by thersa.org.uk.
- Health, fitness & well-being.
- UNDHR [?].
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ACTIONS [?]:
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A FEW HOPES FOR POST-CORONAVIRUS:
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What do you hope for, for the post corona-virus world?
Do you, possibly, know of someone who might want to fund a Covid-19 / aspirations-for-the-world survey?
Or, possibly, just the ZA and IN modules thereof.
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PROPOSED QUESTIONS:
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This question has three, separate, open answer sections - about what you desire for the world - from the perspective of i) your FOOD ii) your KIN and iii) from the perspective of your LIVING or WORK.
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So, what do you hope for from the world, after the corona virus crisis has gone?
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What goal would you most like to achieve in the next five years?
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How might a "Needs Based Allocation" system function in practice? With:
Dear Friend,
Thank you, most gratefully, for this very thoughtful and interesting compilation of readings (in Catholic Economic Teaching, below).
It seems to me that there is still dispute about fundamental requirements in: - family & virtue - redistribution - needs
And, how the state can do, in these, is disputed. Acton (along with the Koran) argue it should be left to charity. And there is on the other side much, naive, talk of prosocial (read, in my view, "in-group" and "virtue-signalling" or "warm-glow") community action. Which, as far as I have been able to tell, evaporates utterly and completely once family or personal habits are threatened. (In any change..?: but "the cows will stop milking", "I HAVE to drive my child to the swimming pool..", etc)
But, there is little argument or disagreement about wealth creation (or the incentives - in the market system - for frugality and productivity).
While muddling along, with slogans daubed on walls, has got us by up to now, it would appear to me that there are forces who are determined to see a return to regressive models. Both on the so-called "libertarian" side and among the "socialists" also. Principally so as to foster civil strife and impoverishment (or civil war, preferably) in the Empire and among the Colonists.
Also, there is no mention of limits. And the, excruciating (but PC'ly unpublishable), statistics on inequity in consumption: 17 kilograms of OilEq / Capita / day in the USA and Australia (or the 11 kgOilEq/p/d in Europe) - versus 1.4 kgOeq/Cap/Day in Kerala and Sri Lanka with very good (/comparable?) health and wellbeing.
Or any conception of the future that beckons - to me #Walkable + #NoOneLeftBehind. Or the Scorched Earth (climate war) #EdenIsBurning, actually, Eden HasBurnt (!??), that seems inevitable. Given the failure to look into the consequences of the AutoMobile (FreeWays and the AeroPlane) as the pinnacle of human civilisation.
Which is, notably, left out of all of these readings. As is the possibility, or objective, to TEST which theories work, and what their practical consequences are.
Economics in the Catholic World | Acton Institute | Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn https://acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-4-number-4/economics-catholic-world - wealth creation is all important/ trickle down works/ but "morally motivated unions can be a pillar".
Catholic social teaching must confront the regulatory state | Acton Institute | Philip Booth https://acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2017/10/24/catholic-social-teaching-must-confront-regulatory-state - the importance of "unintended consequences" and "dead weight" (both of which can be huge) of regulations and "institutions" ( a la Douglass North).
Who are the Catholic economists? | Marginal REVOLUTION https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/05/who-are-the-catholic-economists.html - Catholic thinking, in Economics, down the ages. (Pretty limited, but a few more helpful readings).
A Catholic Framework for Economic Life http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/economic-justice-economy/catholic-framework-for-economic-life.cfm - US Convention of Catholic Bishops: Official statement (waffley and unfocused), but "many people are being forced to choose between basic necessities like food, shelter, and health care. How can you - and how can our society as a whole - help to provide for [their] needs?" (doesn't answer this question).
Why the wealth gap is bad for everyone | USCatholic.org https://www.uscatholic.org/articles/201306/economics-inequality-why-wealth-gap-bad-everyone-27421 - community action + status quo will solve all the problems.
Catholic Economics: Alternatives to the Jungle | by Angus Sibley https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Catholic-Economics-by-Angus-Sibley-author/9780814648681
========================================Redeeming Capitalism | by Kenneth J. Barnes https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7557/redeeming-capitalism.aspx - a "call to reform capitalism as a moral enterprise so it can become a morally steered servant rather than a cruel, amoral master" - very valuable, grounded, and insightful (imho) - not a polemic.
Currently, buildings are sometimes clad with 3 to 5 inches of polyurethane panels. (Or polystyrene, in the case of the UK Grenfell Tower/s). As a measure to combat climate change. While insulation panels do help retain more heat (in winter) and postpone excessive heat gain (in summer), they do not of themselves add to any natural heating or cooling.
This project - in further development - will explore the feasibility, heating savings, and costs, of some kind of "smart louvres" or "mini-glasshouse cladding", and "shutters". To achieve:
Like http://www.sonnenschutz.com.au
Or the principles at the Centre for Alternative Technology (Wales) http://info.cat.org.uk/questions/wise/how-was-natural-passive-stack-and-mechanical-ventilation-used-wise/
Do you know of any firms working on this?
Or what the (theoretical) maximum heating (and cooling) that might be possible with such a system, and (realistic) specified thermal mass?
