Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism”
On this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to discuss a surprisingly overlooked risk to our global systems and planetary stability: artificial intelligence.
Goodbye to the American Century
However uncomfortable the leaders of China, India, and the United States might be when it comes to collaborating with their counterparts, they will have little choice if they are to escape an increasingly calamitous future.
The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back
In coming decades, it will be essential that communities across the nation and world find a way to sustain a decent life amid ecological breakdown, in a future they themselves didn’t create.
The Unspeakable Death of the ‘Almighty Dollar’
That is what might be about to end: The reality that, since colonialism arose in the Sixteenth Century, it has been the transfer of economic value from the Global South which has historically supported the ‘civilised’ lifestyle that denoted The West’s global supremacy.
Post-growth Europe: 400+ experts call for wellbeing economy
As political leaders gather for a second conference at the European Parliament on how to move “beyond growth”, we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation.
Reconnect With Beans – Take Our Food Power Back
To quit the existing model, we need to have bigger ambitions, collectively. We need more of us.
The Two Joes and What They Mean for US Climate Policy
At least one-half of last year’s Washington power couple — Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) — has taken to holding hostage the other Joe’s climate plans and promises.
On Climate: Grieve, Cry, But Don’t Give Up!
Grief calls climate activists to embrace the most difficult challenge: to fight to save as much life as possible and—hopefully—to restore some of what’s gone.
Zapatista Knowledge: Theoretico-political ontoepistemic alter-natives in times of war and civilisational collapse
What we are experiencing today on planet Earth has been called in different ways “World War IV”, “slow, silent and lethal social holocaust”, “systemic crisis”, “global crisis of capitalism”, “polycrisis”, “crisis of Western capitalist (hetero)patriarchal civilisation”, “crisis of the hegemonic civilisational pattern”.
Agroecology must open up to additional dimensions of transformation
Agroecological research has proven that agroecology and local food systems bring a range of goods, including making better use of resources, spending less on packaging and materials, using less transport, and health benefits. Why then is its implementation not supported more broadly?
Summary of my talk at the #BeyondGrowth conference on the impossibility of green growth and the necessity of degrowth
There is a rumour that is picking up speed in the media, affirming that it is possible to both produce more while polluting less. Some people call it “green growth.”
How do people, relationships, experiences, and movements shape us?
Within a mere few pages of his debut novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, Chuck Collins of Guilford, Vermont, sets the stage for his heroine, Rae Kelliher, to carry out a well-planned murder/suicide.
