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‘Footprint Justice’ and ‘Fair Earth Shares’ is getting more attention

By Jan Juffermans, Share The World's Resources

The campaign for 'Footprint Justice' is gathering momentum with a call for UN member states to investigate the legal implications of enshrining a 'Fair Earth Share' as a human right. The following article explains the latest developments, by Jan Juffermans of the Dutch Platform Fair and Green Economy. We know from various calculations and reports that the rich countries use a disproportionate amount of the Earth, which has resulted in major social and ecological problems. This already started in colonial times and got more and more out of hand due to the growth of international trade. For a long time, these raw numbers were used: 20% of the people on Earth, especially in the rich countries, use about 80 to 85% of the annually traded (fossil) energy, land and raw materials. Climate Justice Due to the great differences in energy consumption, the term 'Climate Justice' has been used. The users of a lot...

  • February 1, 2021
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GameStop: Why the elites hate peer-to-peer power

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Small investors, emboldened by an online Reddit group called WallStreetBets, have so far inflicted nearly $20 billion in losses on their arch short-selling foes as the stock price of GameStop has rocketed from about $17 a share on January 4 to $325 a share on Friday. Will WallStreetBets show itself to be a liberating force? Will it spawn a worldwide movement that demands a rethinking and restructuring of our financial system?

  • January 31, 2021
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A Plug for Electric Vehicles

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The electrification of the transportation sector is not just about the environment. It is about the global competitiveness of US industry. To compete abroad requires the ability and capacity to compete domestically.

  • January 29, 2021
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Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 2

By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org

Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.

  • January 29, 2021
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The Nottingham Economic Recovery Consultation (Part One)

By Brian Davey, Feasta

This means that there are a number of ecological economic needs for a change in the structure of the Nottingham economy which will have to happen – above all relocalisation of economic relationships, particularly in food production.

  • January 26, 2021
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A Brief History of Consumer Culture

By Kerryn Higgs, MIT Press Reader

Over the course of the 20th century, capitalism preserved its momentum by molding the ordinary person into a consumer with an unquenchable thirst for more stuff.

  • January 25, 2021
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The Rubble of Empire

By Rebecca Gordon, Tom Dispatch

How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco.

  • January 21, 2021
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Review: Capitalism and Environmental Collapse by Luiz Marques

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.

  • January 21, 2021
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From global drag to radical regionalization

By Jan Juffermans, Resilience.org

For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.

  • January 19, 2021
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The Earth Does Not Belong to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk

By Liz Theoharis, Tom Dispatch

After all, the best hope of successfully navigating the crises of 2021 and beyond must involve King’s dream of building a multi-racial fusion movement to reconstruct society from the bottom up.

  • January 18, 2021
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Get Real Canada, Get to Zero

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

If going for zero succeeds as it has in Australia, Vietnam, Taiwan and New Zealand, then Canadians will live their lives normally with vaccine programs as part of the solution — as opposed to the only solution.

  • January 13, 2021
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Growth without economic growth

By R. Strand, Z. Kovacic, S. Funtowicz, L. Benini, A. Jesus, European Environment Agency

Economic growth is closely linked to increases in production, consumption and resource use and has detrimental effects on the natural environment and human health.

  • January 13, 2021
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