Climate liars, Canada branch
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
Canada so far has a consistent record in the “litany of broken climate promises” department – it has missed every carbon emissions reduction goal it has set.
The toxic cloud called ‘Internet’
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
“If we’re fortunate,” Crary dares to hope, “a short-lived digital age will have been overtaken by a hybrid material culture based on both old and new ways of living and subsisting cooperatively.”
The uncertain prospects for us multicell types
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
You and I and termites have a lot in common. For one thing, we are all dependent on microbes to stay alive. Besides, humans and termites, along with every other multi-celled living creature, belong to just one small branch on the evolutionary tree of life, where we’re vastly outnumbered by bacteria.
Energy Transition and Economic Sufficiency: Introduction
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, Clifford W. Cobb, Resilience.org
We need to work out new ways of living—on individual, local, regional, national, and international scales—to prosper without economic growth and to develop our human potential without robbing the opportunities of future generations.
For better or worse, we adapt
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
We must adapt to climate changes in future, and we are adapting already. But if the adaptations are merely ad hoc and not thoughtfully considered, they are more likely to be maladaptations than great adaptations.
Around the world in a shopping cart
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
In that paradise of capitalist productivity, who besides Jeff Bezos will still have enough income to fill their shopping carts?
‘Zero crashes, zero congestion, zero emissions’ – the perennial myths of autonomous vehicles
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
For a hundred years the auto industry has held out visions of a trouble-free future for drive-everywhere society – and that future is always about 20 years away. Peter Norton urges us to see the current hype about automated vehicles in the cold light of the failed promises of the past.
Colonialism, climate crisis, and the forever wars
By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance
The story Ghosh tells is often appalling, sickening in its portrayal of human cruelty, and frightening in what it says about the daunting challenges we face to achieve a just world through coming decades. It is also enlightening and, in the end, hopeful.