Energy

In our recent article, “Gaslighting Australia: The Instrumental Power of Australia's Mining and Energy Industries”, we look back on the last decade of Australia’s climate policy inaction. Based on our research, it seems likely that the current strategy, like former strategies, may have more to do with industry-government links than economic realities.

The post Gaslighting Australia: the Australian Government’s Commitment to Expanded Gas Production appeared first on Progress in Political Economy (PPE).

Australian Opposition leader (for now), Peter Dutton, has angrily snarled at reporters that he will release the details of his nuclear plan the minute that his ”mentor” Gina Rinehart dictates it to him. ”The press in this country need to... Read More ›

Samuel Smith and Marco Pinchetti Recent events in the Middle East, as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have sparked renewed interest in the consequences of geopolitical tensions for global economic developments. In this post, we argue that geopolitical risk (GPR) can transmit via two separate and intrinsically different channels: (i) a deflationary macro channel, … Continue reading The transmission channels of geopolitical risk →

Pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.

The post AI Roundup: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Pretty Cool appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design.

by Dave Rollo

Warn anyone in the USA about the coming energy crisis and you’re likely to see eyes roll. “What energy crisis? That was half a century ago! Markets and technology won. Today we’re back among the top oil suppliers!”

All true, but the response gives a false sense of security that has policymakers and publics sleepwalking toward a cliff. An energy crisis is likely ahead, no matter our rank (currently third) among oil supplying nations.

The post Approaching the Energy Cliff appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.

Nafeez Ahmed argues that, despite mixed feelings about the COP28 agreement, it marks a real step forward

Taxpayers have been left with a £2.7 billion bill, according to the Public Accounts Committee

Despite Government calls for pay restraint, new figures show some people are doing very well out of the cost of living crisis, writes Josiah Mortimer

Britain's privatised energy distribution network could hold back Labour's ambitious plans for renewables