capitalism — Blog — Nafeez Ahmed

Scientists warning on Super-Rich: making science go viral

I reported exclusively on a major new paper in Nature Communications demonstrating that that the concentration of wealth is destroying the very conditions for human survival. The new paper by a team of economists titled, ‘Scientists warning on affluence’ at first did not generate much pick-up - until I picked it up via my own crowdfunded platform, INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, bringing it over 100,000 downloads.

Environment, EconomyNafeez AhmedNovember 20, 2020science, affluence, wealth, rich, inequality, climate change, environment, capitalism, survival, planetary boundariesComment

Breaking the story of a report to the UN on obstacles to economic growth

In August, I broke the exclusive story of a scientific report commissioned by the UN’s group of independent science advisors working on the UN’s Global Sustainability Report due out next year, a report warning of how the transition to a new era of expensive energy production is undermining the very basis of capitalism as we know it, and endless economic growth in particular.