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The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On
The Path to a Livable Future Cannot be the Path We’re On Stan Cox has pulled off quite a feat with his latest book The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic. In a relaxed, inviting style, Cox sets unorthodox ideas in a persuasive human and environmental […]
Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike!
Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike! Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A very large chasm exists between those in power, including most of the 2020 presidential candidates, and environmentalists and scientists intent on acting now to resolve growing environmental crises. To reiterate what is known, the United Nations, through its IPCC and the IPBES committees, has […]
Wake From the Nightmare or Sleep for Eternity
Wake From the Nightmare or Sleep for Eternity “The tradition of the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the minds of the living.” – Karl Marx Marx offered a thought for all seasons but one that might especially ring true during what is supposed to be a season of peace, joy and humanity. Contradicted […]
Mad World
MAD WORLD And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take When people run in circles it’s a very very Mad world, mad world The haunting Gary Jules […]
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility”
Robert Macfarlane: “the metaphors we use deliver us hope, or they foreclose possibility” They say you should never meet your heroes. They’re wrong. I recently had the huge honour of spending almost an hour in conversation with Robert MacFarlane, author of 9 books including ‘Mountains of the Mind’, ‘The Old Ways’, ‘Landmarks’ and, most recently, […]
How I Became a Libertarian and an Austrian Economist
HOW I BECAME A LIBERTARIAN AND AN AUSTRIAN ECONOMIST I suppose I can date my interest in both libertarianism and Austrian Economics from the day I was born. The doctor grabbed me by my little feet, turned me upside down and spanked my tiny bottom. I began to cry out. That is when I realized […]
Bull Run
Bull Run The Twitter-incited mob that shut down last week’s Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois’ Chicago pavilion was the first skirmish in what is shaping up to be a civil war between a political Left that has lost its mind and a political Right that has lost its mind and its soul. […]
Peasantization as modernization – an alternative ecomodernism
Peasantization as modernization – an alternative ecomodernism I’ve spent – wasted, probably – a fair amount of time on this blog critiquing various techno-fixer scenarios for achieving future sustainability and social justice, most notably that of the self-styled ‘ecomodernists’1. I’m not going to rehash that here, but in this post and the next I’m going […]
Securing a Sustainable Future
Securing a Sustainable Future When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote that “All that is solid melts into air,” they intended it as a metaphor for the disruptive transformations that the Industrial Revolution implied for established social norms. Today, their words can be taken literally: Carbon-dioxide emissions and other industrial pollutants released into the atmosphere are changing […]
If you care about changing society, focus on strengths
If you care about changing society, focus on strengths Asking “What is wrong with our community?” will produce quite different answers to asking, “What would our ideal community be like?” Permaculture in Auroville, India, created by the Transition movement. Credit: http://www.healthesoilcsa.org. Social movements, including those opposing globalisation, environmental destruction and racism, typically start with a […]
The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy.
The inspiring tale of the re imagining of Preston’s economy. We are often asked “what would a Transition local government look like?” It’s a complex question, but one Council taking a pioneering approach to its local economy is Preston in Lancashire. Preston City Council, working with Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) recently published ‘Creating a Good […]
If Food Is a Right, Who Should Provide It?
If Food Is a Right, Who Should Provide It? Nearly 850,000 Canadians visited food banks in one month last year. At a recent public forum in Victoria, B.C. about the right to food, the first audience question was about federal politics and the October election, which put the panelists in an awkward position. “We all […]
Anarchist Social Justice
Anarchist Social Justice Community of Meaning, Popular Justice Fourth in a Four Part Series In our last publication, we addressed some of the problems of the TPP. It endangers the planet, threatens labor, violates human rights, and it globalizes free trade into another form of neo-imperialism. This is further proof that the 1 percent, both in […]
New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina | ROAR Magazine
New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina | ROAR Magazine. New grassroots movements, assemblies and unions are arising in Bosnia Herzegovina. Other post-Yugoslav countries experience similar returns of the left. What’s going on in Bosnia Herzegovina ten months after the uprising? Following the violent riots in February 2014, the citizens of Bosnia have jointly channeled their rage into […]
