Sir, – Anybody wondering about how things are going in the world of disaster capitalism got their answer this past week with the announcement of Shell’s record profits (“Europe’s largest oil company launches $6 billion buyback scheme after reporting $11.5 billion in earnings”, Business, July 28th).
On the back of a brutal war in Ukraine and relentless climate-related misery around the world, driven by their products, it seems things are rosy in the garden of the fossil-fuel industry.
As long as there is a profit- and growth-obsessed economic orthodoxy dominating, it seems we will continue to destroy our collective future for the benefit of the few.
Climate measures without economic reform are just window dressing. – Yours, etc,
An Irish businessman in Singapore: ‘You’ll get a year in jail if you are in a drunken brawl, so people don’t step out of line’
Protestants in Ireland: ‘We’ve gone after the young generations. We’ve listened and changed how we do things’
Is this the final chapter for Books at One as Dublin and Cork shops close?
In Dallas, X marks the mundane spot that became an inflection point of US history
BARRY WALSH,
Blackrock,
Cork.