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	<title>Paul GildingPaul Gilding - Independent writer &amp; advisor on sustainability.</title>
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		<title>Will the techno-optimists save the world?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 23:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m writing this on my way home from speaking at the annual TED gathering in Long Beach California, where 1,500 people gathered to listen to what the organisers call “Ideas Worth Spreading”. TED has always been an influential gathering, but then they put some of the talks online and, with over 500 million views, their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My talk at TED 2012 now available.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Although I’ve done a hundred or so public talks around the world in the last few years around my book The Great Disruption (see link on side bar), speaking at the opening session of the annual TED event is an experience and opportunity like no other. Another speaker backstage, feeling similarly hyped about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Markets Survive the End of Growth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<title>Occupy Wall St is the Kid in the Fairy Tale &#8211; The Emperor Has No Clothes</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/occupy-wall-st.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Tom Friedman recently wrote in the NYT, “There’s Something Happening Here”. There sure is and it’s big. The market system that has delivered so much to the world, brought great technology, alleviated so much poverty, produced a better life for billions, is now destroying itself.

Some say this process is now inevitable. That like an empire in decline, the system is deluded by its grandeur and historical power and thus fails to see its weaknesses - so is unable to respond.  I disagree. The crisis is certainly inevitable, indeed that is well underway. The ecosystem is breaking down, and the economy is in hot pursuit in the collapse stakes. But the path into and through this crisis is a choice we get to make. The future doesn’t just happen, we create it.]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Grenade in a Glasshouse</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20110629grenadeinglasshouse.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s going to hit hard and it’s going to hurt - made worse because most aren’t expecting it. They think the world is slowly returning to our modern “normal” - steadily increasing growth, with occasional annoying but manageable interruptions. After all, the global recession wasn’t so bad was it? Sure there was pain and things got shaky but Governments responded, bailed out companies, stimulated economies, got things back on track.  While it’s still a bit bumpy, Greek wobbles, US debt, extreme weather, high oil and food prices etc, it’ll work out. It always does….

If only it were so. In fact we are blindly walking towards the next in a series of inevitable system shaking and confidence sapping crises, deluded in the belief that the worst is behind us.]]></description>
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		<title>China confronts the limits to growth</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20110315chinaconfrontslimits.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economic growth is slowly but surely coming to an end, not for a few quarters or years, but to an end. It will still take some time given the mighty momentum behind it, as well as the power of our denial, but the signs are clear that both processes have begun.

Let me be clear that I’m not talking here about the long philosophical debate on the relative merits of growth – that rich countries getting richer does not improve their quality of life. What we face now is not a political choice – it’s too late for that. We have put in place the processes that will force the end of growth and nothing can now be done to change course.

China is perhaps the best example, exaggerating all that is good and bad about the growth model.]]></description>
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		<title>About Paul Gilding</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/site-updates/about-paul-gilding.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul is an independent writer, advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability. An activist and social entrepreneur for 35 years, his personal mission and purpose is to lead, inspire and motivate action globally on the transition of society and the economy to sustainability. He pursues this purpose across all sectors, working around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Disruption has arrived</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc2011022thegreatdisruptionarrives.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 22:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why didn’t more of us see it coming? After all, the signals have been clear enough – signals that the ecological system that supports human society is hitting its limits, groaning under the strain of an economy simply too big for the planet. But we didn’t and, as a result, the time to act preventatively has past.

Now we must brace for impact. Now comes The Great Disruption.

It is true that the coming years won’t be pleasant, as our society and economy hits the wall and then realigns around what was always an obvious reality: You cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet. Not ‘should not’, or ‘better not’, but cannot.

We can, however, get through what’s ahead – if we prepare. I wrote my forthcoming book, The Great Disruption, to help us do that. My conclusion in writing it was this:  not only can we make it through, we can come out the other side in better shape.
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		<title>How free market advocates have delivered us big government</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20101214biggovernment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the argument; Governments are inherently ineffective at guiding markets and will always screw it up when they try to. Markets, the argument goes, are inherently more efficient at picking technologies and responding to constraints, so should be left to do their thing.

People who want to resist change, for any number of reasons, latch on to this argument as another excuse to avoid action on climate. After all, even if climate is a problem, government will surely get it wrong if they try to fix it. It is this argument, along with climate scepticism and the over-riding priority given to economic growth, which has, in various combinations, been used against climate action since the threat became clear in the late 1980’s.

Yes, we forget how long this problem has been in the mainstream debate. It was back then that the pro-market, conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher argued : “The danger of global warming is as yet unseen but real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future generations.”

However, despite their adulation of her in other areas, free market advocates ignored Thatcher’s sensible, business-like approach to climate change and instead latched onto the fear of big government. It is true that views of Tea Party types in the US, who genuinely believe the climate threat is a conspiracy cooked up by people with a secret big government agenda, is not the dominant view of the corporate sector. However the general view - that government can’t be trusted, that markets should be left to do their thing and that imposing limits on behavior is inherently dangerous - is widespread and mainstream among those with their hands on the market levers.

Whatever the merits of this argument - and it is certainly true that the record of western governments in such areas is, at best, mixed and arguably poor - the effect of it being leverage to resist change is now clear: We will now move into an era of big, interventionist government that will last for decades and will impose tight controls on market behavior. The percentage of the economy controlled directly or indirectly by government will increase and the market will inevitably become less efficient in the process - it being true that interventionist government and central planning are generally economically inefficient but socially effective – war being the clearest example.

Why is the arrival of such an era now so clear?]]></description>
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		<title>Coal crash coming?</title>
		<link>http://paulgilding.com/cockatoo-chronicles/cc20101118coalcrash.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Gilding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very conservative International Energy Agency has just released its closely watched annual World Energy Outlook (WEO), with forecasts for the structure of the energy market through to 2035. This year’s WEO was much anticipated, given the pace of developments in renewables and climate policy, and it didn’t disappoint. The report included the IEA’s interpretation of what major governments’ commitment to a 2°C temperature target would mean for the energy market. The contrast with what most market players assume, particularly coal companies, could hardly be more dramatic.]]></description>
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