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Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future
Reflections 50 Years Past, 50 Years Future Ed. note: The following remarks were made at the event celebrating 50 years since the publications of the Whole Earth Catalog. Thank you to everyone involved with Whole Earth for the inspiring conversations you’ve sparked over the years, including the ones happening on this stage tonight. I feel […]
‘Til Sustainability Do You Part: Arranging a Marriage Between Degrowth and the Circular Economy
‘Til Sustainability Do You Part: Arranging a Marriage Between Degrowth and the Circular Economy By now, most environmentalists have come across the term circular economy. It’s sexy, it’s cool, and it makes us feel like we can have our cake and eat it too—as long as the cake is made of sustainably grown ingredients, cooked […]
One Size Fits None: Excerpt
One Size Fits None: Excerpt Ed. note: This post is excerpted from the forthcoming book One Size Fits None from the University of Nebraska Press and is reproduced here with permission. You can find out more about the book here. Introduction I’m in western South Dakota, rolling across the prairie in a blue 1970s-era pickup truck, […]
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse? A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy. How can the world’s nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions fast enough to forestall climate catastrophe, without undermining either the global economy (which is still 85 percent dependent on […]
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2
Human Predators, Human Prey: Part 2 Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part II For Part I of this essay see here. 4. Our current context: the adaptive cycle, conservation, and release As we’ve seen, predator-prey relationships shape the flow of energy through ecosystems. But what happens in either a natural ecosystem or […]
Conservativism Now? Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture
Conservativism Now? Market Economies and the Liberal Anti-Culture The persistent purpose of my writing over the past decade has been to reflect in a hopefully complex manner on the sort of culture necessary to “solve” the climate and ecological crisis and create a truly sustainable way of life. One of my main themes has been […]
Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist
Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist This excerpt has been adapted from Kate Raworth’s book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Chelsea Green, 2017) and is printed with permission from the publisher. Now available in paperback and audio. Seven Ways to Think Like a Twenty-First-Century Economist Whether you consider […]
The Transition Towns Movement … going where?
The Transition Towns Movement … going where? The global predicament cannot be solved other than through a Transition Towns movement, and the emergence of such a movement has been of immense importance. But I fear that the present movement is not going to do what’s needed. Four years ago I circulated reasons for this view. […]
Where are We Going?
Where are We Going? Ed. note: Nate Hagens gave this talk on Earth Day on April 23, 2018 at The Land Institute, Salina, Kansas. What follows is an edited transcript of the talk. The Human Predicament Around 11,000 years ago, as the last ice age ended, our ancestors – in no fewer than 5 locations […]
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique
George Monbiot’s Out of the Wreckage; A friendly critique Few have made a more commendable contribution to saving the planet than George Monbiot. His recent book, Out of the Wreckage, continues the effort and puts forward many important ideas…but I believe there are problems with his diagnosis and his remedy. The book is an excellent […]
Post Peak Minsky—Debt, Unsustainability, and Inequality
Post Peak Minsky—Debt, Unsustainability, and Inequality It has occurred to me that the fungibility of public debt is not sufficiently recognized—and perhaps of private debt as well. In other words, when our government in the U.S. engages in deficit spending, the focus is generally on who, precisely, is the immediate beneficiary. As Richard Heinberg notes […]
The Problem with EIA Shale Gas and Tight Oil Forecasts
The Problem with EIA Shale Gas and Tight Oil Forecasts Each year the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) produces forecasts of U.S. oil and gas production in its Annual Energy Outlook (AEO), which is widely viewed as an authoritative assessment of what to expect for future U.S. oil and gas output (the EIA prefers the […]
Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance
Transformative Thinking on Resilience in a Year of Crisis and Resistance These are trying times for those who care about equity, sustainability and climate change—the issues that will shape our common future. In 2017, we saw the ascension of a US presidential administration that denies the reality of climate change, emboldens hate groups, and borrows […]
