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The Stench of Neoliberalism with Noam Chomsky (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Noam Chomsky, Resilience.org

As a follow-up to Episode 61 of the Crazy Town podcast, Noam Chomsky, the well-known linguist, author, and social critic, joins Asher Miller in Crazy Town to discuss the failures and dominance of neoliberalism.

  • August 11, 2022
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July 2022: Warmest nights in U.S. history

By Bob Henson, Yale Climate Connections

  • August 10, 2022
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The Seed Savers of Sahyadri School

By Suma Josson, Salt Films

  • August 10, 2022

LATEST ARTICLES

Pennsylvania County Bans Fracking in Area Parks

By Nick Cunningham, DeSmog Blog

Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive.

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High-profile paper on “catastrophic” climate impacts echoes our “What Lies Beneath” analysis on fat-tail, existential risks and IPCC reticence, published four years ago

By David Spratt, Climate Code Red

There is a need to outline current knowledge about the likelihood of extreme climate change, discuss why understanding bad-to-worst cases is vital, articulate reasons for concern about catastrophic outcomes, define key terms, and put forward a research agenda.

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Hold Fire

By Niamh Ní Bhriain, Transnational Institute

There is no long-term strategy or ultimate goal beyond militarise by any and all possible means.

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Mutual Aid Groups That Arose During COVID Gather to Build Power Regionally

By Ella Fassler, TruthOut

More than two years after ad-hoc networks of collective care sprouted from the cracks of state neglect during the pandemic, mutual aid organizers across the U.S. are convening in Indiana this July to prepare these networks to face crisis, disasters and survival for the long haul.

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Climate Knocking at Our Door: How to Integrate Climate into Our Sense of Self

By Jennifer Harvey Sallin, illuminem

It’s worth noting that all integration work – in our relationship with the climate and in any area of our lives – is not a “holy grail” we find at one moment in time and then the work is done.

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The Animal Worlds That Lie Beyond Our Perception

By Betsy Mason, Undark

What is special about humans that sets us apart from other animals? Less than some of us would like to believe.

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UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikes

By Caroline Molloy, Open Democracy

A committee of MPs said last week that the government should “stop announcing short-term policies and moving existing budgets around and instead fully fund a national retrofit programme” of home insulation.

A Small Farm Future

For a new politics of ruralization

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

The case for ruralism over urbanism as I see it is simply that the dynamics of climate, energy, water, soil and political economy are going to propel multitudes of people to the world’s farmable regions sooner or later.

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The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 2)

By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org

I don’t expect oil production from the Middle East OPEC countries to significantly exceed the production rates of 2018/2019 in the future irrespective of what the U.S. wants them to produce. 

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“Getting to zero” is a lousy goal

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

But in our reality in 2022, with far too much carbon dioxide already flowing through the atmosphere and the climate crisis worsening every year, knowingly emitting more greenhouse gases for another two decades is a shockingly cavalier dance with destruction.

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The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?

By Steady State Manchester Team, Steady-State Manchester

Yet, for a politician to advocate increased economic growth, given the evidence, they have to be ignorant, wicked or stupid.

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The Energy Bulletin Weekly 8 August 2022

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin

U.S. distillate consumption has begun to fall in line with the deceleration in manufacturing activity.

EDITOR’S PICKS

Boys and Oil

Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

Above all, Boys and Oil is a glorious tour de force of narrative nonfiction: a memoir that reads like the best kind of novel, with a gripping story and an astonishing sense of place, time and character.

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The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture

By Jared Spears, Schumacher Center for a New Economics

At the most human level, reconnecting people around the growing of their own food may prove to be among our most effective means of healing our widespread sense of disconnection from nature and community.

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Think Resilience Course

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 16: Globalization

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 6: Political & Economic Management

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

Think Resilience Lesson 5: Pollution

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

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The Living Soil Handbook

By Jesse Frost, Chelsea Green Publishing

Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky.

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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

By Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Princeton University Press

What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planet.

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Now is the Time to Prepare

By Ronald Logan, Resilience.org

In economics there is a proposition known as Dornbusch’s Law that states: Crises take longer to arrive than you can imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.

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William Cobbett’s ‘Cottage Economy’: the future is material

By Samuel Young, Medium.com

Cottage Economy is not, however, just a nineteenth-century DIY manual. It is also a fiercely polemical defence of smallholding as a way of life.

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The real risk is that the economy could fail this winter

By Richard Murphy, Tax Research UK

Like so much of life, the economy is very fragile. It can seem almightily powerful to most of us, most of the time. But that is not really the case.

Is degrowth the future?

By Jorge Pinto, Green European Journal

The Future is Degrowth is arguably one of the most complete works on the concept of degrowth, clearly and thoroughly discussing the need to think beyond economic growth and why and how degrowth is an alternative.

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Windfarms raise incomes and house prices in rural US, study finds

By Josh Gabbatiss, Carbon Brief

Wind turbines have increased local incomes by around 5% and house values by 2.6% in parts of the US, according to a new study.

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The Great Simplification: Steve Keen “Mythonomics”

By Nate Hagens, Steve Keen, The Great Simplification

Keen discusses how mainstream economics misses the centrality of energy to our economy and to our futures, the naive treatment to the risks of money and debt creation, and the disconnect economic theory has to climate change risks.

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