In 2022, the Rockefeller Foundation put out one of those Food reports that read like ‘How can we save the planet by taking away all pleasure in food and stripping all food consumption down to fundamental metrics relating to health and sustainability’. I’m drawn to these ‘Future of Food’ type reports. Firstly, there are aContinue reading “The ‘True’ Cost of Food”
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The Future of Food
In 2019, Sainsbury’s celebrated their 150 year anniversary by commissioning a report that imagines how the UK’s food systems could change over the next 150 years. Specifically, the report focuses on 3 points in the future: 2025, 2050 and 2169. Here is the report so you can read for yourself: http://www.department22.uk/uploads/2/2/2/7/22275778/future-of-food.pdf We are now, inContinue reading “The Future of Food”
The Economics of Renewable Energy pt 2 – Solar
Ed Miliband has stated many times that renewable energy is cheaper than gas and will bring down household energy bills. We all instinctively knew that Ed was lying but I’m going to present the evidence that he was lying. I will present the economics of solar in this post, having already presented wind energy inContinue reading “The Economics of Renewable Energy pt 2 – Solar”
Net Zero Endgame
Let’s explore how Net Zero is going to cause hyperinflation in the UK. Think of the economy as a pyramid comprised of 3 layers. The bottom layer is occupied by energy and resources. These are the building blocks of an economy.Goods and services appear in the middle layer of the pyramid. These are the productsContinue reading “Net Zero Endgame”