Monthly Archives: April 2021

CBC Massey Lecture: Burning Data

The planned obsolescence profit model is long since affordable.  New extended producer-responsibility with increased taxes and prosecution of offenders must better connect products and services to the environmental and health costs inflicted.  The answer isn’t to resist change or hide … Continue reading

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The carbon offset scandal

The story of how the Nature Conservancy, the world’s biggest environmental group, became a dealer of meaningless carbon offsets.  Here is a direct video link.

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Bankruptcy wave delayed, but building

I’ve often mentioned that bankruptcy filings usually peak some 18 months after a recession ends.  Government support and payment deferrals have delayed bankruptcies flowing from the COVID-19 triggered depression, but the deadwood is building all the same. The go-to maneuver … Continue reading

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