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July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – […]
Defending degrowth at ecomodernism’s home
Defending degrowth at ecomodernism’s home In June, I was invited to speak at the eight annual Breakthrough Dialogue, an annual invite-only conference where accomplished thinkers debate how to achieve prosperity for humans and nature. The Breakthrough Institute, anecomodernist think-tank, welcomed my presence as a provocateur. I was to participate in a panel called “Decoupling vs. Degrowth”. My […]
Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash
Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash Photo by Kevin Gill | CC BY 2.0 The Earth is having to deal with continuous, largely unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, along with soil degradation, mass extinction of species, destruction of ecosystems, and disruption of nitrogen, phosphorous, and water cycles. Meanwhile, efforts to head off the […]
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Last week I succumbed to a bad habit of mine that I’ve been trying to put behind me – leaving snarky comments on ecomodernist websites. I won’t dwell too much here on the ins and outs of the issues, or on ecomodernism itself – hell, there’s a whole page of this site devoted […]
Of boomers and doomers
Of boomers and doomers I suppose this is going over old ground, but I’ve been struck anew recently through various readings and conversations about the nature of techno-utopianism, and the difficulty we seem to have nowadays in breaking out of a boomer-doomer dualism – that is, either the (rather unhistorical) ‘boomer’ notion that human rationality, […]
Remembrance of Things Yet to Come
Remembrance of Things Yet to Come Remembrance of Things Yet to Come: A Response to Ted Trainer I’m going to make divert slightly from my previously anticipated track to respond to Ted Trainer’s valuable critique of Leigh Phillip’s much-maligned celebration of ecomodernism, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts (2015). I agree with much of Trainer’s critique, and am particularly thankful for […]
Retro-modernism
Retro-modernism I wrote a lengthy piece about modernism in my last post. Then I drafted another lengthy piece about its critical implications for so-called ‘ecomodernism’, which became so lengthy that it turned into two posts. Then I read over them, and felt – bored. So it’s probably time to move on from ecomodernism. But there’s […]
Magical mathematics
Magical mathematics Recently I got into a spot of bother on Twitter (it’s easily done) after I wrote an essay criticising an astonishingly bad newspaper article by one Leigh Phillips. The thing is, I hadn’t read his book and, silly me, I didn’t realise that you’re not supposed to criticise people’s newspaper articles until you’ve read their books. Well, […]
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips Dear Leigh Hello, my name is Mr Puck. I heard about your new book, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn-Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff. Now, a title involving the word ‘porn’ that isn’t actually about, er, porn usually indicates something that’s well […]
The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship
The persistence of the peasantry: further notes on the inverse productivity relationship Look, I’m really, really sorry. I said I wasn’t going to write another blog post about ecomodernism but – no, no, please don’t go! This post strikes to the heart of what Small Farm Future is all about, and raises some interesting agricultural […]
Dark Thoughts on Ecomoderism
Dark Thoughts on Ecomoderism It’s been a year for manifestos. With the dust only recently settled on the British general election, much has been heard about the different (though not that different) ‘narratives’ offered by the major political parties in their manifesto commitments. Meanwhile, a cabal of environmentalist thinkers and activists were busy putting together […]
