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Will Our Domination be Our Downfall?
Will Our Domination be Our Downfall? For those of us who’ve been paying attention to the general state of the world and human society, it’s readily apparent that we as a species have sent ourselves hurtling into the depths of a global crisis that has the potential to wipe ourselves out along with many of […]
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism?
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism? Two new documentaries tackle the all-important question of our age, namely how humanity and nature can co-exist in a period of insurmountable capitalist contradiction, especially when humanity takes the form of small businesspeople hoping to exploit natural resources under duress. Opening at The Landmark at 57 West on […]
The Earth for Their Possession
The Earth for Their Possession Book Cover I was in Hawaii to discuss ‘history from below’ together with that powerful practitioner of said history, scholarly abolitionist, writer, and colleague, Marcus Rediker. How is ‘history from below’ to be distinguished from similar forms of history writing, such as people’s history, radical history, labor history, social history, […]
Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt, and Conservationists, Too
Climate and Forests: Land Managers Must Adapt, and Conservationists, Too The case for adaptive management by land management agencies has been in the making for a long time, and takes on a new urgency with the changes being forced by the emissions from consumer and industrial combustion of fossil fuels. The case for adaptive conservationby non-governmental organizations takes on its […]
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary
Chernobyl’s Deadly Effects Estimates Vary April 26 marks the 33rd anniversary of the 1986 radiation disaster at Chernobyl reactor Number 4 in Ukraine, just north of Kiev the capital. It is still nearly impossible to get scientific consensus on the vast extent of the impacts. The explosions and two-week long fire at Chernobyl spewed around […]
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator […]
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems Photograph by P J Hansen – CC BY-SA 2.0 Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event. Surely, the world is not prepared for the […]
Delegitimising Journalism: The Effort to Relabel Julian Assange Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “Your honour, I represent the United States government”. The Westminster Magistrates Court had been left with little doubt by the opening words of the legal team marshalled against the face of WikiLeaks. Julian Assange was being targeted by the imperium itself, an […]
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides ILSI-Europe Headquarters, Brussels. Photo: PAN Europe Current EU regulations forbid human exposure to pesticides that are classified as mutagenic, carcinogenic, reprotoxic (toxic for reproduction), persistent or capable of disrupting endocrine systems. By virtue of these and other protective measures EU regulations are considered the gold standard in […]
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out”
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out” Photograph Source thierry ehrmann – CC BY 2.0 The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and […]
Climate Change Parallax
Climate Change Parallax There exists a very seductive delusion that once we cool (or heat) the planet to the proper temperature that the majority of our ecological ills will be over. This is a dangerous self-dectption. “Climate change” per se is not the problem. Temperature fluctuations (increases) reflect underlying carnage caused to nature by excessive […]
State of Apocalyptic Nature: A Contract with Gaia
State of Apocalyptic Nature: A Contract with Gaia As for the individual, every one is a son of his time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as foolish to fancy that any philosophy can transcend its present world, as that an individual could leap out of his time or […]
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending Kollibri terre Sonnenblume came through Saint Paul late last year and I will never forget his eye contact. It was steady and intimate. He was unafraid of what judgements lay on the other side. I tried my best to keep it, but rather sheepishly, turned away […]
Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression
Yellow Vest Movement Struggles to Reinvent Democracy as Macron Cranks Up Propaganda and Repression Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair After five months of constant presence at traffic circles, toll-booths and hazardous Saturday marches, the massive, self-organized social movement known as the Yellow Vests has just held its second nationwide “Assembly of Assemblies.” Hundreds of autonomous […]
