In a world where the climate crisis and the survival of nature are hot topics, it is easy to lose hope. But if you follow the trail of research, a promising future emerges. Green technologies are advancing. John Rothgeb is an enthusiastic voice sharing hopeful insights. Rothgeb highlights the economic side of the transition to renewable energy sources and…
Category: Future
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
Capital's robot slaves or freed angels
Will chips in the brain make us immoral robot slaves of capital or will it make us angels with free will? https://www.dn.se/kultur/linus-larsson-nar-chippet-togs-ut-ur-hennes-hjarna-blev-hon-en-annan Elon Musk's company Neuralink has received permission to experiment with brain implants on humans . This has raised questions and concerns among researchers. A 49-year-old woman in Australia talks about her experience of losing…
A third world war and international inequality
World leaders and experts warn of the risk of a third world war. They point out several similarities between today's game plan and the periods before previous world wars. The conflict in Ukraine has escalated. Documents have been leaked about Russia's alleged plans to enter Moldova and the Baltics and increase its power in Belarus. There are risks of a third…
Can solar and wind boost productivity?
When productivity increases, preferably without us working harder, we get more to distribute or things that under facilitate our livelihood, efficiency and comfort. Since the 1970s, information technology has been in focus. This has not facilitated the physical production that much? Can the development of solar, wind and water energy not only save the climate but also speed up…
The continued rise of the Social Democrats requires equality
Equality and indexed resources to the municipalities are the key. Peter Gustavsson writes in Tidningen Rörelsen that the Social Democrats' increased popularity after the election is conditional. The Social Democrats must give the people equality and sufficient resources. Equality obviously builds power because the many workers and the middle class so outnumber the wealthy few. At the same time, Sweden can afford its people...
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
Freedom, equality and good jobs for all are needed if the red-greens are to regain power
Freedom and security mean a lot to the people of Sweden. It is disgusting that welfare becomes ethnically demarcated. We can afford and have an ethical responsibility to have refugee immigration, but it must be done in the right way without economic neoliberalism. But the election and the blue-brown's Tidö agreement show so far that if the red-green are to rule again,...
The red-greens must protect freedom and solidarity
Almost as many die in workplace accidents as in gang crime. Hundreds of workers, especially men, kill themselves every year because of the hard working life. The welfare increases of 2014-18 were too weak if wonderful and the slaughter of LAS and the attack on the low rent system and the tax cuts for the rich 2018-2022 horrible. Those who were hit hardest by the…
Post-election analysis: communication, freedom under responsibility and equality
According to Red Justice's post-election analysis, the broad left including the Social Democrats must improve on communication, freedom under responsibility and equality.