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Inheritance Tax Charges for Farmers
When farmland has become financialised in the way it has been because of inheritance tax exemptions, farming can't work, so farmers need to realise that actually having an inheritance tax charge helps them to reclaim farming for farmers and for the benefit of the people of this country. They really should not be protesting today: Labour is, for once, on their side and even doing the right thing.
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Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash
Earth and Leaf Editorial – Flawed Economic Models will Lead to Global Crash About time someone else realised that we use flawed economic models. Our current Economic teaching includes externalities. These are costs for someone else to bear. The theory only needs a tweak, the consequences of that tweak are unimaginably serious. Economists have always recognised these climate costs, but until now they haven’t been able to include them in their thinking. So they were called Externalities. They are now measurable costs. So the polluter must pay. Climate models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the Earth into uncharted territory.…
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What is Degrowth and can it Save the Planet?
{What is Degrowth and can it Save the Planet? – Earth and Leaf editorial} {extract below} What is Degrowth? ‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet? The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring In the run-up to the UK general election, the Labour party’s central offer to the public was a “laser-like” focus on economic growth. Its leader, Keir Starmer, promised to “take the brakes off Britain” and repeatedly said “ensuring economic growth will be fundamental”. In the weeks since the party was elected, it has regularly been grilled…
