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For excellence and access in relation to re-education, see Estelle Morris, The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 16 October 2003. For tradition and change, see Tony Blair, speech to the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, 7 June 2000, as reported in Giles Coren, “You can’t expect people to like being patronised for making jam”, The Times, 8 June 2000 and John Carvel, “Heckled, jeered, booed – Blair bombs at the WI”, The Guardian, 8 June 2000. For sustainable development, see Herman E. Daly (1996), Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development, p 167. Here Daly corrects this fallacy, writing “Sustainable development, development without growth, is an economics of better, not bigger.” For false consistency (aka the double maximand) and utilitarianism, see Geoffrey Scarre (1996), Utilitarianism, pp 24–25. As Jamie Whyte (2003) points out, there is nothing inconsistent about pragmatic choices, one or both of which are inconsistent with a principle which you accept: you choose that way because you want to do so. The inconsistency arises when you defend your choice in terms of the principle.

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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