Only by the honest examination of all options can we ensure that one day we will rely solely on renewable energy, but also that our planet will not have been fried by then …
Financial Transactions Tax: What is the problem?
“The financial sector has grown too big and volatile and something must be done. A tax on financial transaction is something, therefore a tax on financial transaction must be done.” If you can spot the logical error in that line of reasoning you just outsmarted many European policymakers. Eleven EU countries – including France, Germany, […]
Will Technological Development Take Your Job?
In The Terminator, a highly intelligent computer becomes self-aware and starts a nuclear holocaust that wipes out the human race, leaving only a few brave souls left to fight the robot soldiers, impersonated by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The fictional date of this catastrophic event – August 27, 1997 – has long since come and gone without […]