Don Fitz ([email protected]) is on the Editorial Board of Green Social Thought. He was the 2016 candidate of the Missouri Green Party for Governor. His book, Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, has been available since June 2020.
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You Donât Miss What Doesnât Exist
âAnthropauseâ is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Coxâs Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do â it first focuses readersâ attention to the positive experiences we could enjoy in a society less dedicated to producing unnecessary stuff. It then details the destructiveness of overproduction.
February 3, 2026
Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?
The electrification of energy should go global only if it is by and for those where the transition occurs.Â
April 10, 2024
Nuclear Fusion: Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation
Contrary to widespread propaganda, humanity does not desperately need more energy. We desperately need to live better with less energy.
June 6, 2023
Life expectancy: The US and Cuba in the time of Covid
For the first time, life expectancy in Cuba exceeds that in the US by almost three years. The reasons include responses to Covid, health care systems, racism, poverty, misinformation campaigns, the embargo, international solidarity efforts, and resilience to climate change.
September 15, 2022
Cuba prepares for disaster
The book Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change in Cuba: Adaptation and Management (2021) traced the highly successful source of the island nationâs efforts to the way it put human welfare above property.Â
March 24, 2022
Path to Extinction or Path to a Livable Future?: Review
It is well past the time to face hard decisions of how to reduce obscene levels of corporate production instead of fiddling with perpetual energy fantasies while the planet burns.
November 3, 2021
