Global Economic Table with Income from Drugs & Prostitution Included

World Economic League Table (WELT) for 2014

The latest edition of Cebr Global World Economic League Table (WELT) for 2015 reveals interesting moves by the world’s largest  economies, say the authors.

The UK overtakes France (just) having revised our GDP figures to include earnings from drugs and prostitution. The French figures do not include these industries (which may well be larger than their British counterparts!).

Russia’s well known economic woes show it dropping to tenth place. The collapse in the Turkish Lira brings it down from 17^th to 19^th place. Korea moves up a place as do Italy (surprisingly but only because the Russian economy is in even worse trouble than the Italian economy!) India, the Netherlands, Belgium (who swap places with Norway) and Austria. Argentina drops 3 places as its economy collapses. [Cebr]

Cebr Global’s World Economic League Table (WELT) is an annual calculation by Cebr Global, Cebr’s global economic consultancy. The base data for 2013 is taken from the IMF World Economic Outlook and the GDP forecast draws on Cebr’s Global Prospects model to forecast growth, inflation and exchange rates. (Source: Cebr)

In its 2011 “End of the Year” entry titled Most Unethical Nations in 2011 [and Probably 2012] posted December 31, 2011, FIRE-EARTH said

World’s top 20 countries with the highest arms expenditure 

Top 20 countries with the highest military expenditure for 2010 shown as a percentage of the world total. Source: SIPRI Military Expenditure Database, War Resisters League and others.

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Mad dogs and Englishmen

Accelerated Garbage Production to ‘Save’ Terminal Economy

EDRO’s Ultimate Human Conundrum

The most intelligent species on earth, human, in its quest for the total subjugation of nature has created the ultimate conundrum:

He measures his livelihood gains by the strength of GDP, and his ills by the size of carbon footprint.

The larger the GDP, however, the bigger the carbon footprint!

FEWW says: The exponential growth economy, which is committing human and many other species to extinction, is clearly not ‘designed’ to extend the ‘shelf-life’ of this planet; however, you fulfill its monetary goals for the privilege of participating in the 6th Great Extinction extravaganza.

The following article is by Reuters:

UK still mulling car scrappage scheme

Sat Apr 11, 2009

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Saturday it was still looking into the possibility of introducing a car scrappage scheme to boost the recession-hit vehicle industry, despite a report that the Treasury was blocking the idea.

Under the proposed scheme, cars more than nine years old could be scrapped in return for a 2,000 pound discount on a new car.

The Times reported on Saturday that there was a deep rift between Business Secretary Peter Mandelson and the finance minister, Alistair Darling, over the proposal.

Gordon Brown, UK Prime Minister. Time to scrap ‘one-trick’ politicians (those with double-digit IQs) and let intelligent, non-affiliated individuals save the largest number of species possible. Photo: PA. Image may be subject to copyright.

The unsourced report said Mandelson wanted Darling to make a scrappage scheme the centrepiece of his April 22 budget but said Darling was concerned about the cost and terms of the programme.

“Officials from both departments are continuing to look at the possibilities of such a scheme. However, no decision has yet been taken,” a spokesman for Mandelson’s department said when asked for comment on the report.

A Treasury spokesman denied any rift between the ministers and said: “This is one of a number of measures the Chancellor (Darling) will consider in the run-up to the budget.”

The aim of the scheme would be to boost the car industry, whose sales have slumped due to the recession, while replacing older vehicles with more environmentally friendly cars.

A similar scheme in Germany helped lift new car registrations there by 40 percent in March.

British car sales were down 30 percent year-on-year in March.

The scrappage scheme is top of the wish list for Britain’s struggling car industry which is confident it will get a boost in the budget.

“At the moment the scrappage (measure) is getting more purchase … The Chancellor (Darling) has been keen not to have announcements made outside of the budget,” the chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Paul Everitt, told Reuters this week.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the budget will contain environmental measures to aid recovery from recession, creating thousands of “green” jobs.

But analysts say Darling has to balance the needs of the shrinking economy with the dire state of the public finances.

(Reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Anthony Barker). Copyright Reuters

“In all the gin joints in all the countries in all the world, they put people like Golden Brown, Peter Mandelson, Alistair Darling, David Miliband … in charge and you expect to have a home to go to?”

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Climate ruining economy that ruined climate!

Protect economy from climate??!

Shouldn’t the scientific message be

Protect World from Economy?

You know your problems are serious when eight scientific organizations urge the next U.S. president to “protect the country” not by way of changing the predatory economy but instead by means of “funding for research and forecasting” to dodge the climate change.

Instead of urging an immediate end to the exponential growth economy and demanding a zero-growth, low carbon, waste-free okonomia for managing the environment, welfare of humans and other living species, and a system of ‘housekeeping’ for the planet’s natural resources to sustain life on Earth, the country’s top scientists are looking for ways of serving the economic Titanic.

Original Entry: Protect economy from climate??!

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How Much CO2 Does Your Money Produce?

Did you know?

Each dollar you earn (or spend) produces 450g of CO2 pollution!

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