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Transitioning to Sustainable Societies: Eco-communities in Denmark
Transitioning to Sustainable Societies: Eco-communities in Denmark Prologue The current article is a compressed, shortened version of a Master’s thesis that has been developed by two master students from the Environmental Management and Sustainability Science study program at Aalborg University in 2017. In the present paper, we intend to show that when it comes to […]
Film in the Anthropocene
Film in the Anthropocene Film is of course the art form of Industrial Civilization and its mass culture, whether as a simple historical fact, a manifestation of technical possibility, or in the various ideologies it is adept at expressing. But it is also the art form of the Anthropocene. I am overstating the case somewhat, […]
The World Oil Supply is Infinite: I Know That Because I Believe It
The World Oil Supply is Infinite: I Know That Because I Believe It Earth scientists have been making the case for years that the present level of human activity is not sustainable. We’re rapidly depleting resources, degrading ecosystems, altering the atmosphere, etc. What earth scientists are saying is generally not covered by the mainstream media, […]
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1)
Getting Past Trump: This Is How Democracies Die (Part 1) Ed note: This piece is part of a 3-part series. Part 1 is also cross-posted on Truthout. Donald Trump’s 13-month tenure (so far) as president of the United States has been an exhausting sprint for onlookers concerned about the state of the global ecosystem and […]
New U.S. Record-Level Oil Production! Peak Oil Theory Disproven! Not.
New U.S. Record-Level Oil Production! Peak Oil Theory Disproven! Not. Well, I’m amazed and impressed. Tight oil production has pushed total United States petroleum output to more than 10 million barrels a day, a rate last seen almost a half-century ago. It’s a new U.S. record. Fifteen years ago I was traveling the world with […]
Closing the Gap between the Science and Politics of Progress
Closing the Gap between the Science and Politics of Progress Ed.note: This article draws on a paper published this month in the international journal, Social Indicators Research. The paper is available on Richard’s website, www.richardeckersley.com.au Global politics is based on an outmoded and increasingly destructive model of human progress and development. Can science change a […]
The Peace Fallacy
The Peace Fallacy Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of the its population. . . . In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to […]
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism
Energy, Money and Technology–From the Lens of the Superorganism During Nate Hagens’ #WEP2018 keynote, he discussed how all of our lives will be influenced by how we react to the coming era of harder to extract and more costly fossil fuels that will be combined with cleaner but more stochastic energy types. Ed. note: The […]
Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
Life Without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the delusion that the United States is the greatest nation in the history of the world — a claim repeated robotically by politicians of both parties. […]
Surviving the Future in America
Surviving the Future in America Nonetheless, the tide is flowing. The direction is mapped, very simply, in those little hexagons of the Wheel of Life. Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but in has the decisive argument on its side that there will be no alternative. –David Fleming To recline on a […]
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies
Bitcoin, Blockchain, and Local Currencies The Seven Social Sins of the World: Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Commerce without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle — given by Mohandas Gandhi to his grandson Arun shortly before his assassination BITCOIN AND BLOCKCHAIN The world is on fire lately […]
Finding Pathways to a Better Future
Finding Pathways to a Better Future Part 1: Where Have We Been? Unlike other ecosocialists, I have long argued that the path to radical social transformation called for the formation of the most inventive social movement the world has ever seen. But as a scholar of twentieth-century revolutions and twenty-first century movements for radical social […]
Overpopulation is a Problem, but Capitalist Overdevelopment is a Bigger Problem
Overpopulation is a Problem, but Capitalist Overdevelopment is a Bigger Problem Ed. note: This is a response by Richard Smith to Saral Sarkar’s commentary on Richard’s original article Climate Crisis and Managed Deindustrialization: Debating Alternatives published on Resilience.org here. Saral misreads my statement. He says “Richard writes, “Capitalism, not population is the main driver of planetary ecological collapse … […]
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse
The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse Contrary to common sense, we could experience booming GDP and stock market valuations all the way to society’s imminent collapse. As we reel from one natural disaster after another—hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, wildfires in California—climate scientists explain how they’re not really “natural” at all. They’re the anticipated consequence of a breakdown […]
Sleepwalking is a Death Sentence for Humanity
Sleepwalking is a Death Sentence for Humanity Manifesto for a Sociology of the Climate Crisis and of Climate Justice Ed. note: The following is Chapter 14 of the new book: Cimate Futures: Re-imagining Global Climate Justice, edited by Kum-Kum Bhavnani, John Foran, Priya Kurian, and Debashish Munshi (Berkeley: UC Press/Luminos) Many intellectuals in the social sciences and […]
