BSFG member and Web Team leader Peter Maddock has a particular interest in the limits to growth and steady state economies. 

​Peter is currently reading Jason Hickel's book 'Less Is More' and says he is finding it excellent 

Peter also recommends reading Jason's blog, particularly the post Degrowth and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): A Thought Experiment (10 September 2020).

Jason's website includes a page of links to Podcasts and Videos he has featured in - go to ​https://www.jasonhickel.org/media 

​Web team convenor Peter Maddock recently described 'having an existential crisis' in response to the book and film 'Bright Green Lies' which question the renewables industrial complex. ​

Peter came across the film on Kindle just as he had finished reading Dead In The Water by Richard Beasley which he describes as 'A very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe. . . the death of the Murray-Darling Basin'.

'Hot Topics' are invariably highly complex 'wicked' if not 'super wicked' problems.  An excellent resource on wicked and super wicked problems, Chris Riedy's 'Climate Change is a Super Wicked Problem',  highlights the difficulty we have in making headway on dealing with climate change, and many environmental issues and the need for bipartisan approaches.   .

Another important article on complexity uses the analogy of a complex chess game to discuss the 'super wicked' policy problem of climate change. In  'We Need to “See the Whole Board” to Stop Climate Change', Project Drawdown's Executive Director Dr Jonathon Foley suggests that addressing climate change is like playing chess. "We need to use all the pieces, employ multiple strategies, and see the whole board. But, unlike chess, we have to play this game collaboratively to win."

Bev Lee
Web Team