Monthly Archives: December 2020

Remember we still need to save the world. Let’s re-energize and refocus Climate Actions in 2021.

Posted on December 31, 2020 by davidsprott

We need to energise climate actions in a highly effective way, engaging ordinary people that causes and enables governments to make more courageous longer term decisions. Continue reading →

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Happy XMAS (War is Over?)

Posted on December 17, 2020 by davidsprott

Should we simply return to what was normal in 2019? Or do we have an extraordinary opportunity to leverage not just the reduction in emissions but to learn from the experience of disaster that literally stopped us in our tracks. Continue reading →

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Split up Facebook? No! Enforce Open Social Media Interoperability Standards to enable real competition.

Posted on December 10, 2020 by davidsprott

I see today in the Guardian that “The US government and a coalition of 48 states and districts have filed parallel lawsuits against Facebook in a major antitrust offensive that accused the social media behemoth of anticompetitive behavior and could ultimately force … Continue reading →

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Sovereignty – The Road to Madness

Posted on December 9, 2020 by davidsprott

It seems the Brexit process is likely to founder on the rocks of Sovereignty. Earlier today Boris Johnson said, “the EU was seeking an “automatic right” to retaliate against the UK if its labour and environmental standards diverged from theirs.” … Continue reading →

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