As part of the Earth Hour discussion, today’s Globe and Mail has a comment piece on computers and energy use that generated some insights into the relations between socialist and capitalist attitudes. The problem isn’t so much your computer, the greater concern is massive server farms that store and route the world’s information. According to [...]
Tagged as:
capitalism,
earth hour,
ecoconscience,
energy,
enviromentalism,
google,
organizations,
socialism
Deep breath… I started writing this becauese at work we got in trouble for talking about sensitive political and religious topics. One of my ‘comrades’ cleverly figured out that we could tilt the discussion onto a slightly more academic axis. He asked me what I knew about John Maynard Keynes. I know a little. I dealt with Keynes [...]
Tagged as:
crisis,
economics,
energy,
infrastructure,
keynes,
recession,
stimulus
