Andrew Simms

Andrew Simms- British author and economist.

Andrew Simms (born 1965 ) is a British author , economist and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a fellow at the University of Sussex's Center for Global Political Economy and a Fellow at the New Economics Foundation .

Andrew Simms coined the term ecological guilt to illustrate the extent to which economies overexploit the respective environment. He initiated the World Exhaustion Day or Earth Overshoot Day on which the world economy has completely used up the earth's resources, which will be available in a year, assuming future consumption forecasts.

Career

Andrew Simms was General Director of the New Economics Foundation for ten years. He was also director of communications and initiated the foundation's climate change program. He was a co-author of The Green New Deal and a co-founder of the Green New Deal Group . He was also a co-founder of the onehundredmonths.org climate campaign and the New Weather Institute think tank. He was the keynote speaker for the Green Party in Great Britain.

A political economist and environmentalist, Simms studied at the London School of Economics and received a Masters in Developmental and International Political Economy. He published several reports on climate change, globalization, barriers to development, debt (conventional and environmental), finance and investment, business accountability, genetic engineering and food security. He coined the term "clone towns" to describe the economic and equalizing effects of retail chains on the centers of cities.

Simms takes an active part in the public debate about ways out of the climate crisis ; he signed in October 2018 an open letter to the British government a failure in climate protection is accused of the Extinction rebellion - one for civil disobedience calling on the climate issue grassroots movement - is supported and a decarbonisation of the economy is required.

Publications

• Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations (2005, 2009) ( Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations ) Pluto Press
• Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters (2007)
• Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (Does a good standard of living have to come at the expense of the earth?) (Co-author) (2008)
• The New Economics co-authored with David Boyle (2009) Routledge. ISBN 978-1-84407-675-8 .
• Eminent Corporations: the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation (co-author) (2010)
• Cancel the Apocalypse: the New Path to Prosperity (2013) Little, Brown and Company
• Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times (2017)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Guardian: Andrew Simms
2. ↑ Earth overshoot day 2013 ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Green New Deal group
4. ↑ One hundred months
5. ↑ newweather.org
6. ↑ New Economics Foundation biography ( Memento of the original dated July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ communities supermarkets
8. ↑ Alison Green et al. a. (2018). Facts about our ecological crisis are incontrovertible. We must take action. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/26/facts-about-our-ecological-crisis-are-incontrovertible-we-must-take-action