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Author: Andrew Simms

Blog Rapid Transition 

Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response

10th March 202010th March 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment civil contingency, COVID-19, disaster response, emergency, localism

Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for

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Bush fire destroys house
Blog Daily Climate Denial Weather Bombs 

Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?

6th January 20206th January 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment climate emergency, Economic policy, extreme weather, global heating, migration

Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and

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Looking ahead to economic prospects for 2020
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey

2nd January 20202nd January 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Economic policy, Economics, Heterodox Economics, Macroeconomics

Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took

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Flooding
Blog Daily Climate Denial Weather Bombs 

New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter

19th November 201922nd November 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, fossil fuels, science

As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society

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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Knock Three Times – see our new collection of modern folk tales

28th October 201918th August 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments

Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Five fails in UK climate emergency action

22nd October 201922nd October 2019 Andrew Simms 1 Comment climate, climate breakdown, Economics, fossil fuels

As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of

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Blog Clearing the Air Weather Bombs 

Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem

13th October 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments

Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

10th October 201910th October 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate breakdown, Economics, Extinction Rebellion, fossil fuels, green new deal, People's Assembly, Treasury

Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted

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Blog 

Why Caroline Lucas should be the interim PM

2nd October 20192nd October 2019 Andrew Simms 2 Comments climate breakdown, green new deal, politics

By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important

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Blog Rapid Transition 

The Green New Deal – now make it happen…

20th September 201920th September 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate breakdown, climate strike, Economics, Economics Reformation, Fridays4Climate, green new deal

We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working

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