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The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner
The Recent History of GDP Growth, CO2 Emissions, and Climate Policy Paralysis, All in One Table-Runner Note: I began designing this table-runner just before the COVID-19 pandemic blew up in the United States. In the time I have been embroidering it, rates of death and misery have soared while wealth generation and carbon emissions (the […]
Review: Planet of the Humans
Review: Planet of the Humans A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film, Planet of the Humans (directed and narrated by Jeff Gibbs), in which she began by admitting that she hadn’t seen the film yet. When writers take that approach, you know there’s already blood in the water. (She has since watched […]
Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog 04-15-2020
Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog 04-15-2020 First, a recap. The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog was born in the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is designed to demonstrate philosophy’s practical side in these challenging times. It encourages readers–and not just professional philosophers–to utilize the hard-wired human propensities to think, imagine and create. It’s of the armchair variety […]
What Might We Learn from COVID-19?
What Might We Learn from COVID-19? COVID-19 has much to teach us about compassion, caring, gratitude, cooperation and truth. We need to thank our news media for keeping us informed, especially at this particular moment when falsity and division abound. Leaders supporting “fake news” and “alternative facts” have failed to address a pandemic in time […]
Energy Slaves: every American has somewhere between 200 and 8,000 energy slaves
Energy Slaves: every American has somewhere between 200 and 8,000 energy slaves Source: https://www.homesthatfit.com/how-precious-is-energy-ask-your-slaves/ Preface. To give you an idea of what energy slaves are, consider what it would take to use human power to provide these: How much energy does it take to toast a single slice of Bread? Olympic Cyclist Vs. Toaster: Can […]
Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change
Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change As the pandemic grows, governments and communities are not only struggling to minimize loss of life and protect our fragile healthcare and economic systems, they are wrestling with questions about how we can recover when this storm eventually passes. But how many people are thinking about […]
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020
The Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog, 03.26.2020 It may sound paradoxical, but philosophers have proved useful in times of collapse and rebuilding. Some of the greatest works in philosophy–at least in terms of their longevity and influence–were written in and during such times.1 (More on this below.) Alfred North Whitehead, one of those philosophers writing in […]
How Does Pandemic Change the Big Picture?
How Does Pandemic Change the Big Picture? As of 2019, the Big Picture for humanity was approximately as follows. Homo sapiens (that’s us), a big-brained bipedal mammal, had spent the Pleistocene epoch (from 2.5 million years ago until 12,000 years ago) developing its ability to control fire, talk, paint pictures, play bone flutes, and make tools and clothes. Language […]
Embracing Interconnectedness
Embracing Interconnectedness Ed. note: This piece is a response to the Toward a Great Ethics Transition Forum on the Great Transition Initiative website. It is of the utmost importance to establish the right framework of values for the deep transformation of civilization that is needed. As I have laid out in The Patterning Instinct, different cultures […]
Power, the Acceleration of Cultural Evolution, and Our Best Hope for Survival
Power, the Acceleration of Cultural Evolution, and Our Best Hope for Survival These days I’m deep in the process of writing a book on power—both physical power (humanity’s power over nature) and social power (the power of some people over others). The book’s first few chapters explore the historical process by which we developed our […]
David Hughes’ Shale Reality Check 2019
David Hughes’ Shale Reality Check 2019 1.9 million. 13 trillion. 10 billion. These are the numbers that jumped off the page when I read PCI Fellow David Hughes’s latest “shale reality check” report on the U.S. government’s forecasts of domestic oil and gas production. To elaborate, these forecasts mean that by 2050: 9 million new oil and gas wells will […]
Abandon All Hope: Moving Toward an Existentialist Environmentalism
Abandon All Hope: Moving Toward an Existentialist Environmentalism As the Earth’s ecological systems upon which we depend accelerate in their slouch towards Bethlehem, our society faces an existential crisis. The effects of climate change are far direr than we initially expected. Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have risen to 415 ppm for the first time […]
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future?
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future? Ed. note: Excerpted from the final two chapters of Jeremy Lent’s award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, (Prometheus, 2017) which explores the different ways cultures have patterned meaning into the cosmos, and reveals how various […]
US Oil Exploration Drops by 95 Percent
US Oil Exploration Drops by 95 Percent It is well known that oil discoveries are in continuous decline worldwide in spite of ever-increasing investments. What is less known, however, is that spending on oil exploration is fast dropping in the United States. Exploratory drilling has been decreasing year after year and now stands at only five percent […]
Growing a Revolution: Review
Growing a Revolution: Review Growing a Revolution: bringing our soil back to life by David R. Montgomery W. Norton & Company 321 pages $19.58 hardcover, $11.52 paperback, $9.88 Kindle, $26.29 audio CD Resilience.org asked me to review this book, probably because I did a multibook review five years ago in which I compared four books on sustainable […]
