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BlackRock says we’re all doomed. It’s being optimistic
BlackRock says we’re all doomed. It’s being optimistic The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse BlackRock predicts a lasting fall in living standards for the many, alongside huge profits for the few | Maureen McLean/Alamy Live News The working assumption, for governments and central banks across the […]
EU fails to reduce dependency on fossil fuels amid soaring energy bills
EU fails to reduce dependency on fossil fuels amid soaring energy bills, As the global energy crisis intensifies, the EU is renewing its commitment to fossil fuels instead of investing in green energy European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson speaks about European solutions to the rise of energy prices for businesses and consumers at the […]
Pandora Papers Show True Face of Global Britain
Pandora Papers Show True Face of Global Britain Through its network of tax havens, the U.K. is the fulcrum of a system that benefits the rich and powerful writes Adam Ramsay. Cherie and Tony and Blair in 2003. The former U.K. prime minister and his wife are among those mentioned in the Pandora Papers. (Kremlin.ru, […]
Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism
Global transformation: the precariat overcoming populism A contribution to debate urging the mainstream left not to be distracted by populism. Aim instead for what we know about the near Future. Toulouse delivery men from Uber Eats or Deliveroo protest against precarity. December, 2020. Alain Pitton/PA. All rights reserved. Transformations tend to go through several preliminary […]
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it
Preparing for the end of the world as we know it For many Indigenous people, the collapse of our current system is not necessarily bad news. Image: Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, all rights reserved Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is a collective of researchers, artists, educators, activists and Indigenous knowledge keepers from the Global North […]
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy. I’ve been thinking a lot about breathing, recently: how our organisms take life-supporting oxygen from Earth’s clement atmosphere, and exhale waste carbon dioxide back out. I’ve been thinking about how pleasant and […]
Development: a failed project
Development: a failed project It’s time to abandon development and think about postdevelopment instead. “They talk to me about progress, about ‘achievements,’ diseases cured, improved standards of living. I am talking about societies drained of their essence, cultures trampled underfoot, institutions undermined, lands confiscated, religions smashed, magnificent artistic creations destroyed, extraordinary possibilities wiped out. They […]
False hopes for a Green New Deal
False hopes for a Green New Deal If the ‘Green New Deal’ is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis. In recent months the ‘Green New Deal’ has given hope to many on the Left as a promising solution to climate breakdown. Having been championed by […]
The open Amazon and its enemies: a call for action and optimism
The open Amazon and its enemies: a call for action and optimism The Amazon, now on fire, has become the central political and geopolitical hot spot for humanity’s right to its own future. Optimism is the gasoline that must feed the fight. June and July have been the hottest months on record in the Western […]
One hundred years after World War I, are we heading back to the abyss?
One hundred years after World War I, are we heading back to the abyss? On the anniversary of the Great War’s end, we should reflect on its causes, consequences and lessons for the future. Today we live in a world that is not dissimilar to the pre-WWI world, when a few emperors and their families […]
Degrowth as a concrete utopia
Degrowth as a concrete utopia Economic growth can’t reduce inequalities; it merely postpones confronting exploitation. Español “My Visit to the Mountain Homestead.” Credit: Flickr/Eli Duke. CC BY 2.0. The emergence of interest in degrowth can be traced back to the 1st International Degrowth Conference organized in Paris in 2008. At this conference, degrowth was defined […]
Seven ways to build the solidarity economy
Seven ways to build the solidarity economy We can transform capitalism by encouraging the ‘better angels of our nature.’ Credit: Flickr/Cogdogblog. CC BY 2.0. The solidarity economy is a global movement to build a post-capitalist world that puts people and planet front and center, rather than the pursuit of blind growth and profit maximization. It […]
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature
Neoliberalism drives climate breakdown, not human nature Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook. Image: Quarrie Photography, some rights reserved. Many zoos have an exhibit like this: a wall with a hatch, and under the hatch words like “Do you […]
Confronting the money-power elite
Confronting the money-power elite Those who control the creation and allocation of money are able to control every other aspect of society. Shouldn’t that be us? Credit: Flickr/Liz West. CC BY 2.0. The world today is controlled by a small elite group that has been increasingly concentrating power and wealth in their own hands. There […]
Storm warnings
Storm warnings Image: Tom Gill, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 “The test of science is its ability to predict” — Richard Feynman As if governed by some deterministic law, the current debates between economists and critics follow a predictable path. Critics begin by mentioning the failure of economists to predict or warn of the crisis. Howard Reed […]
