Frankly: Meeting the Future Halfway
At end of long week I offer a short riff on: What is the Great Simplification? What have I learned in doing the first 25 episodes? What is a framework for responses?
Overlorded…
In fact, the only thing we must do is survive this mess. And the best way to do that is to jettison the whole thing and build the lives we need.
Deadly Optimism, Useful Pessimism
Resilience builders may end up making the crucial difference between survivable hard times and utter human failure.
How Fossil Fuels Made the Human Race Dependent on a Finite Resource
Carey King of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin discusses how the last 70 years of economic and population growth have been fueled by the transition to petroleum, how a decreasing supply of it has increased political polarization, and what the future might hold as supplies continue to dwindle.
When More is Not Enough
Today, Peter and I discuss how dopamine, evolution, and modern culture push many of us toward a lifestyle of excess and overconsumption.
A Personal Definition and Incomplete History of Gaianism
An ethical global perspective is necessary today. We must find the unity of Earth and the world. It would be helpful if we had a word, better yet a name, that encapsulates this unity.
Food Security versus Sustainability in Europe during the war in Ukraine
The debates on food security versus sustainability in the context of the war in Ukraine have revitalised a longstanding debate on “who will feed the world”.
A “Blue Commons” Agenda to Stop the Plunder of Our Oceans
Standing has just published The Blue Commons: Transforming the Economy of the Sea, a book that synthesizes vast amounts of complicated maritime histories, international law, and ecological science to explain how commoning could curb the market/state’s irresponsible, life-destroying treatment of oceans.
The Greatest Crisis Facing the Nation May Not Be Climate Change (2)
There are no shades of gray in today’s politics. It means that most policy discussions are binary — red or blue — and incapable of compromise. It shouldn’t be that way. If it continues this way, the consequences will be enormous.
Anthropogenic Man: a documentary on the human predicament
I have organized an event each year for our community around Earth Day for the last ten years. This year I was able to do a live event with an all-star lineup, so I decided to dress it up and make it into a documentary so it could hopefully be more alluring to people new to this line of thought.
In Chile, We Have the Opportunity to Build an Economy to Overcome Fear
Going deep down to undo the foundations of capitalism will require a leap of revolutionary hope in our own capacity to live together differently.
On the Existence of A Man and Further Exegesis of A Man
Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.
