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The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025
The Bulletin: June 5-11, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. In the Sightlines of Empire: The Gift and Curse of Thermal Optics The Superfood That Replaces Every Toxic Oil in Your Kitchen Why Analysts Misjudge Oil’s Future | Art Berman CO2 […]
Bring Back Capitalism
Bring Back Capitalism A new generation of unscrupulous political leaders and Wall Street hucksters has come up with a brilliant plan to outwit the populist revolt: pretending to be critics of capitalism BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells Fox Business host Liz Claman how climate change killed the Iguanodon Raise your hand if you saw this headline from […]
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up How to speak to a hostile crowd Some weeks ago, I was sitting on stage with an economist from the World Trade Organisation and a banker from UBS. We were opening a small, one-day conference for the private aviation industry, and I had been invited to challenge the prevailing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXV–Capitalism: One of Several Predicament Catalysts
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXV Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Capitalism: One of Several Predicament Catalysts Today’s contemplation is prompted by an article posted recently in a Degrowth Facebook group I am a member of. The author presents the argument that capitalism and the greed it inspires is the root of our inability to address climate […]
Capitalism Cannot Turn Into Anything But Autocracy
Capitalism Cannot Turn Into Anything But Autocracy …only to disintegrate altogether soon after Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash The history of capitalism has an arc of its own. It has a beginning, a high point, and yes, an end — with or without revolutions, climate change or ecological destruction. Capitalism follows a trajectory of natural evolution culminating in a […]
The Disastrous Inseparability of Western Science and Capitalism
THE DISASTROUS INSEPARABILITY OF WESTERN SCIENCE AND CAPITALISM The following is an exert from Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World, by Jonathon Crary. [Verso, 2022] Any effective imagination of a post-capitalist material culture must confront the inseparability of modern technology from the institutional formations of modern science. We are currently overwhelmed from all […]
The End Of Fossil Fuels Will Be The End Of Modern Capitalism
The End Of Fossil Fuels Will Be The End Of Modern Capitalism That which is unsustainable can not be sustained Ed Yourdon from New York City via Wikimedia Commons None of us are ready for the chaos of the we are stoking, caused by the rapacious growth of what Kurt Vonnegut Jr. referred to as […]
Taming The Greedocracy
Taming The Greedocracy American elites want magical technological fixes to climate change because they refuse to confront the truth that seriously addressing the problem would require limits to their own power and luxury. Few of us want to face the climate mess. The numbers are scary and confusing, and the facts have never been reported […]
Yanis Varoufakis: We Are Living in a Post-Capitalist, Techno-Feudalist Dystopia
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-CAPITALIST, TECHNO-FEUDALIST DYSTOPIA World-renowned Greek economist, author, and politician Yanis Varoufakis argues that global capitalism as we know it is dying—and something much worse is taking its place. Yanis Varoufakis speaks with This Is Revolution co-hosts Jason Myles and Pascal Robert. Screenshot/TRNN From the push to turn more […]
False Beliefs and Denial
False Beliefs and Denial Sam’s Gap at the Tennessee/North Carolina border I have embarked on quite the journey over the past year. I stepped out of my comfort zone and decided to begin writing this blog. I do enjoy discussing energy and resource decline and climate change, because of the stark implications they present. I’m […]
Blueprints for impossible futures
Blueprints for impossible futures “A People’s Green New Deal” demands a different kind of impossible Over the past two decades, a proliferation of “Green New Deal” literature has promoted various strategies for changing the structure of the global energy system to combat climate change. While the term was first coined by the neoliberal economist Thomas Friedman, […]
Don’t blame capitalism. Capitalism itself isn’t “bad”; it’s the effects that are bad. — Nate Hagens
Don’t blame capitalism. Capitalism itself isn’t “bad”; it’s the effects that are bad. — Nate Hagens Capitalism has allowed us to throw a two-century party – We trashed the place, drank the booze, burned the furniture — It’s time to wake up, act like adults, and behave responsibly. — Nate Hagens “Here in America when bad […]
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism
Solving the climate crisis requires the end of capitalism Overcoming the climate crisis will require a shift away from our growth-based, corporate-dominated global system General view during the Global Climate Strike March on October 02, 2020 in Durban, South Africa. According to media reports, the group demanded that individuals and governments must take stronger action […]
The Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The Corporations Are The Government: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ You’d think the revelation that the CIA planned to assassinate an award-winning journalist for journalistic activity would have been a bigger deal. ❖ Capitalism hinders progress because it ensures that all mass-scale human behavior will be driven by […]
A crisis of affordability
A crisis of affordability Western capitalist economies don’t really do shortages. There are a few stand alone exceptions such as a music festival or a sporting event, where demand so outstrips supply that queues form. But for the most part – as we saw last week with the eye-watering rise in wholesale gas prices – […]
