by Andrew Simms | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Rethinking Economics
Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog
By David Boyle and Andrew Simms When car-crash politics proves such irresistible and distracting theatre, it is even more important to maintain a focus on our central, generational challenge, the prevention of climate and ecological breakdown, whatever happens with...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working at the speed and scale needed looks like a Green New Deal. Now there’s a proposal before Parliament to deliver one. Here’s Caroline Lucas writing in The...
by Andrew Simms | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog, Initiatives, Rethinking Economics
Economics – A Crash Course Hear the authors David Boyle and Andrew Simms introduce their new book, Economics – A Crash Course, the first beginner’s guide to the subject for the general reader written from a plural or ‘heterodox’...
by Andrew Simms | Mar 16, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
Here’s some evidence-based hope in a warming world… Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we’ve made this short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action...
