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Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution
Degrowth: Toward a Green Revolution The Americanism that people will never voluntarily give up the consumption that is killing the planet represents the triumph of a long con. The problem that consumed (apologies) economists in the early twentieth century was how to get people to want the stuff that capitalism produces. Past the point of […]
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’ Photo Source N i c o l a | CC BY 2.0 Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother — […]
Climate Change Action Would Kill Imperialism
Climate Change Action Would Kill Imperialism Photo Source Molly Adams | CC BY 2.0 Climate change action would kill imperialism, and that is why we can’t have it in America. American political power is based on fossil fuels, and the US military is the engine that consumes those fuels to produce that power. So long […]
The Intolerable Scourge of Fake Capitalism
The Intolerable Scourge of Fake Capitalism Investment Grade Junk All is now bustle and hubbub in the late months of the year. This goes for the stock market too. If you recall, on September 22nd the S&P 500 hit an all-time high of 2,940. This was nearly 100 points above the prior high of 2,847, which […]
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking
The Secret of Eternal Growth? It’s Wishful Thinking I want to believe in eternal economic growth. Given what humanity is facing with climate change and other consequences of our collective consumption, it must be awfully comforting to have faith in a cornucopian future where no one ever goes wanting. Especially if all we have to […]
Is The Evidence of Global Warming Too Scary For Humans To Cope With?
Is The Evidence of Global Warming Too Scary For Humans To Cope With? I appreciate the numerous emails thanking me for providing an understandable explanation of the global warming scenario. The book, Unprecedented Crime, about which I reported, caused me to start thinking more seriously about man-made global warming. I already was thinking about it, […]
Catabolism: Capitalism’s Frightening Future
Catabolism: Capitalism’s Frightening Future Photo Source SPACES Gallery | CC BY 2.0 “Out of the frying pan, into the fire” is an apt description of our current place in history. No matter what you think of globalization, I believe we’ll soon discover that capitalism without it is much, much worse. No one needs to convince […]
Climate Crisis is Upon Us
Climate Crisis is Upon Us One of the more useful allusions hidden in plain sight in the recent IPCC / UN report on climate crisis is the distinction between the pre-industrial and industrial ages that defines the era of climate crisis. Industrial capitalism, a/k/a capitalism, is the cause of climate crisis. Plenty of pseudo-scientific rubbish […]
The Self-Defeating US Empire
The Self-Defeating US Empire Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. Former President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) described the essence of US foreign policy as “speaking softly while carrying a big stick”. Under the incumbent president, Donald Trump, it seems to be all about “speaking loudly”. What […]
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working against the national interest. The report singled out environmental activists and NGOs that had been protesting against state-corporate policies. Those largely undemocratic and unconstitutional policies were endangering rivers, forests and local ecologies, destroying […]
Why Growth Can’t Be Green
Why Growth Can’t Be Green New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both. Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish […]
The Age of Fraud: the Link Between Capitalism and Profiteering by Deception
The Age of Fraud: the Link Between Capitalism and Profiteering by Deception Photo Source Daniel Lobo | CC BY 2.0 Fraud is an issue that haunts many contemporary societies around the globe, including in East Africa. I have been researching the topic of economic trickery for over a decade in Uganda, and published a number […]
Bad Money
Dreamstime Bad Money Our debt-based fiat money system poses an existential threat We’re all going to have to be a lot more resilient in the future. The “long emergency“, as James Howard Kunstler puts it, is now upon us. If ever there was a wake-up call from Mother Nature, it’s been the weather events over […]
Good Times…
Good Times… My son wanted to know why it is that Venezuela (a topic that gets discussed around the dinner table at home) chose such painfully, obviously asinine policies. After much thought I explained it thus. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard […]
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise A climate change-fueled switch away from fossil fuels means the worldwide economy will fundamentally need to change. Image: Shutterstock Capitalism as we know it is over. So suggests a new report commissioned by a group of scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General. The main reason? We’re transitioning rapidly […]
