Society plays against loaded dice: The market is luring us to catastrophe

Earlier this week, President Michael D Higgins launched a justified attack on neoliberal market fundamentalism, pointing out that the philosophy has led to “unbridled consumption, yawning inequality”, and the destruction of our natural world.

Society plays against loaded dice: The market is luring us to catastrophe

Earlier this week, President Michael D Higgins launched a justified attack on neoliberal market fundamentalism, pointing out that the philosophy has led to “unbridled consumption, yawning inequality”, and the destruction of our natural world.

He expressed a view that challenges, in the most fundamental way, the sterile conservatism and orthodoxy of our Government and others like it. He challenged so much of what Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s Government considers plausible despite growing and irrefutable evidence.

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