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Getting old and being old
Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the US presidential election has prompted me to write down a few thoughts about getting old and being old.
Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.
Sex, lies and Videotape
What to do when we can’t trust our own eyes (or at least, the videos we are looking at.
Achieving net zero with renewables or nuclear means rebuilding the hollowed-out public service after decades of cuts
Another belated reprint, from The Conversation, 27 June
Be careful what you wish for
The third in the famous trilogy of spurious Chinese curses that begins with “May you live in interesting times” is “May all your wishes come true”. I may have triggered this curse with a piece I wrote for The Conversation in March. headlined “Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal” which ended
Why neither growth nor degrowth make sense as long-term objectives for Australia’s economy
henever I mention concepts such as gross domestic product (GDP), there’s a high probability that arguments about the merits of “growth” and “degrowth” will erupt. Almost invariably, these arguments are stuck in a conceptual framework that’s 50 years out of date, or even more.
Monday Message Board
Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please.