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Review: An Inconvenient Apocalypse by Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

The goal of An Inconvenient Apocalypse isn’t to try to convince people of the reality of humankind's environmental and societal crises. The book’s authors know that’s a fool's errand...

  • August 31, 2022
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A Neo-Distributist Proposal

By Chris Smaje, The Land Magazine

  • August 31, 2022
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All the king’s horses

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

  • August 31, 2022

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‘Climate Dystopia at Our Doorstep’: Tens of Millions Battle Catastrophic Flooding in Pakistan

By Julia Conley, Common Dreams

With hundreds of thousands of people displaced, more than four million crops destroyed, and nearly a million homes demolished or severely damaged, Pakistani officials and rights campaigners on Monday called for a major international aid push....

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Kiril Sokoloff: “What’s the Most Important Question in Today’s World?”

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

Why is the financial community so complacent about peak oil and the relationship between increasing energy scale and growth?  Can we make predictions about the future by looking back at history?

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Breaking Britain’s energy ‘market’

By Andrew Curry, thenextwave

In the short term, we’re staring at an economic and humanitarian catastrophe, and to fix this in the few months we have we have to work with the system we have.

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GDP is (almost) everything, and that’s the problem

By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium

The question asked by serious political economy now is not ‘how do we perpetuate growth’, but rather, if it will be degrowth by design, or by disaster.

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Small-town citizens get creative in Black Hills uranium mine fight

By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project

A Missouri State University study identified the main citizen concerns voiced:  health effects of radioactivity released by uranium, underground water contamination, land and environmental destruction due to mining, lack of Native American consultation, and cultural rights to water based on historic treaties.

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The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 5)

By Roger Blanchard, Resilience.org

Environmentalists like to say that oil can be easily replaced with electric and fuel cell vehicles in the transportation sector.  But how realistic is that assertion?

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The Work of Radical Frugality

By Harriet Fasenfest, YES! magazine

But with time, our lives as consumers in the capitalist economy will appear frail when compared to a life in the home economy. And eventually, we’ll come to understand that this is about more than making cupcakes. A lot more.

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Organizers have fought for debt cancellation for over a decade — and their work is far from finished

By Sara Herschander, Waging Nonviolence

Brooks and other organizers don’t plan to let up on their demands that the federal government cancel all student debt, make college free or affordable, and address the predatory practices that continue to perpetuate the crisis.

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What do calls for ‘abolition’ really mean?

By Emily Kenway, Open Democracy

What today’s abolitionists share is a concern with how we can care for one another, in the most expansive sense.

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The Energy Bulletin Weekly 30 August, 2022

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said ‘cutting production at any time’ was an option for OPEC+...

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The Authoritarian Fetish

By Ben Shread-Hewitt, Medium

This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.

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Degrowth: No, Let’s Not Call It Something Else

By Erin Remblance, illuminem

We don’t need to change the name ‘degrowth’. What we need is for more of us in wealthy nations to intuitively associate the term ‘economic growth’ with ‘collapse’.

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Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why and How”

By Nate Hagens, Kris De Decker, The Great Simplification

How does low tech differ from high tech and what does it feel like to live a low tech lifestyle?

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Tuning Into The Future

By Susan Jennings, Agraria

As Carver, Kimmerer, Stamets, and many mystics and shamans have written, life (god, plants fungi, trees, and grasses) sings all around us. The question is, are we listening?

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Think Resilience Course

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

Think Resilience Lesson 16: Globalization

By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute

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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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A Small Farm Future

A novelist, a journalist and an anthropologist…

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

When it comes to applying these lessons to agricultural history in Britain or elsewhere with a view to creating a just and renewable agrarian future, what I take from Sahlins’s thought is almost the opposite of what a superficial reading of ‘The original affluent society’ might suggest.

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Degrowth Gains Ground

By Jared Spears, YES! magazine

The Future Is Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.

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GDP is a useless measurement. But what should replace it?

By Lisa Hough-Stewart, Open Democracy

This once-fringe idea of going ‘beyond GDP’ is finally appearing at the highest level of international policy discussions and inside governments from New Zealand to Wales.

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The Café That’s Upending Capitalism

By Mike De Socio, YES! magazine

Inside this brick storefront, something much more radical is brewing: a business model that could upend the traditional capitalistic business structure.

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It’s time for a more nuanced discussion around Science, Technology, and Innovation in degrowth

By Ben Robra, Degrowth.de

It is clear that degrowth neither represents a return to the stone age, nor can it fetishize technological solutions to the climate crisis.

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Rapid transition to beat the heat: Community Resilience

By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance

Under the right conditions society, with all its structures and systems, can change as rapidly as the mercury in the thermometers is rising.

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