With a group of eight others, including the Guardian's Larry Elliot, I have co-authored a proposal for a Green New Deal to tackle what is, in reality, a 'triple crunch': economic recession, accelerating climate change, and rising oil prices underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production.
The route to accelerating Vermont toward genuine progress is uncharted.
It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile.
Most damaging is the way that they have set themselves in competition with the billionaires whose wealth, accelerating beyond the economy, is always going to be out of reach.
The new research, published in the journal Science on Thursday, discovered for the first time that ice shelf melt is accelerating.
An accelerating national drama involving leading government figures, conspiracy claims, personal smears, sodomy allegations and a grizzly murder appears to be driving Malaysia inexorably towards its biggest political upheaval since independence in 1957.
Only then will we be able to say that America's film industry is a full partner in accelerating acceptance".
"Warning lights are flashing, particularly brightly over France and Greece, both of which saw accelerating rates of decline at the start of the second quarter.
But will Birdman's accelerating momentum, brought into focus by last night's Directors Guild America win, mean it trumps Boyhood (just five noms here) to the big gongs?
The truth is that today we face not just a single crisis but three – a combination of a credit-fuelled financial meltdown, accelerating climate change, and soaring energy prices, underpinned by an encroaching peak in oil production – and only a combination of public intervention and regulation can begin to deal with them.
Twenty-first century provincial France is quickly accelerating well beyond any cliches that Parisians might have about the backwardness of provincial life.
