A race to the bottom

The Race to the Bottom

Welcome to the twilight of the Industrial Age. Growth is ending. That was the blunt thesis of a recent essay, and the signals are already here—deindustrialization, grid stress, financial instability, and rising geopolitical conflict. The Honest Sorcerer’s argument is simple: growth depends on ever-faster drawdown of energy and materials as population and complexity increase. If…

A race to the bottom

Charli Thompson of Barnet Greens on why Barnet’s social care crisis Is about more than one tragedy Barnet Council’s Colindale head office Like many people in Barnet, I watched the Sky News documentary Unseen: A Girl Called Nonita with a mixture of grief and anger. But sadly not disbelief. The death of Nonita Grabovskyte, and the subsequent revelations that two more care-experienced young people have died, should have stopped the borough in its t…