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Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy [Being masters or possesors of nature] has no meaning – except to enslave society to an absurd project and to the structures of domination embodying that project.~Cornelius Castoriadis[1] The debates surrounding climate change almost always contain a certain urgency, and, it couldn’t be otherwise as it […]
The promise of restoration lives within us
The promise of restoration lives within us “Today let’s start a new decade, one in which we finally make peace with nature and secure a better future for all” declared António Gutteres, the UN Secretary General, on June 5 during the virtual opening event of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. With environmental degradation already […]
Local Food Saves the Day (Again)
Local Food Saves the Day (Again) The flaws of an industrialized food system have, yet again, been exposed—this time through a cyberattack. On May 30, 2021, a cyberattack caused JBS, the world’s largest meat processing plant, to close nine meat processing plants in the United States. Although the shutdown lasted for only a day, analysts report that […]
Introduction to The Web of Meaning
Introduction to The Web of Meaning Ed. note: This excerpt from the Web of Meaning is published with the permission of the author. As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on […]
Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman (Episode 44 of Crazy Town)
Net Energy and Sustainability, or… the Story of the Overstuffed Strongman (Episode 44 of Crazy Town) All of humanity’s feats, whether a record-setting deadlift by the world’s strongest man or the construction of a gleaming city by a technologically advanced economy, originate from a single hidden source: positive net energy. Having surplus energy in the […]
Too Much Power
Too Much Power If we modern humans are, in effect, addicted to power, perhaps we need something like a collective twelve-step program. This article, the third in a series, is based on the author’s forthcoming book, POWER: LIMITS AND PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL. You can read the first article in the series here, and the second here. […]
Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or… the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar (Episode 42 of Crazy Town)
Runaway Money and Overconsumption, or… the Story of Monetary Mischief in Madagascar (Episode 42 of Crazy Town) Way back when money consisted of iron pieces, if you wanted to buy a horse or some spices to season your horse meat, you practically had to carry an olympic weightlifting set with you. Early bankers figured out […]
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History A couple of days ago I happened to pick up an old book gathering dust on one of my office shelves—Palmer Putnam’s Energy in the Future, published in 1953. Here was a time capsule of energy concerns from nearly a lifetime ago—and it got me to thinking along the […]
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point?
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point? Ed. note: This article first appeared in Spanish here. This is an interview with an expert (Ferran Puig Vilar) and award-winning author of a climate blog on tipping points. Photo credit: Ferran Puig Vilar. CEDIDA POR EL ENTREVISTADO The straw that breaks the camel’s back. The last time the […]
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change
New Booklet on False Solutions to Climate Change Starting last summer, people from several organizations have been working to update a booklet on false solutions to climate change (I was involved with this effort for awhile and wrote the first draft of a couple of the sections). Now Hoodwinked in the Hothouse: Resisting False Solutions to […]
Imagine Earth Day in ten years
Imagine Earth Day in ten years It’s a bit of a challenge, to imagine what Earth Day will look like in ten years. Part of that challenge arises from the fact that it depends on what we do throughout that decade to deal with and try to correct the ravages of incipient climate change effects. […]
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests AITKIN COUNTY, Minn. — Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels of arrests and citations for demonstrations against the private Canadian infrastructure project rise faster than at any time since construction began on it in December. The […]
21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law
21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law Just as genocide has become the norm in international law, it is time to make war on nature a prosecutable crime also. At the end of last year while the world was focused on the Corona virus a panel of experts in international law met to […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 3) This is part three of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of government policy by […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2) This is part two of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of […]
