The Great Coffee Economy Con
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Coffee, the addictive obsession of the affluent class, can tell us more about modern society than just retail trends; it is an indicator for how the modern neoliberal system operates, and its current shift toward new economic extremes.
Electric Shock! Technological Complexity and the Modern Lifestyle
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
A certain level of technology certainly improves human lifestyle; but beyond a certain point technology creates a ‘trap’ – where growing complexity creates a higher risk to our well-being should those systems suddenly fail.
‘Food for Free’
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
The 1970s surge in ecological awareness saw many books published on our relationship with the natural world. ‘Food for Free’, by Richard Mabey, was published fifty years ago in 1972.
The Cost of Living Crisis & the Coming Crash
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Driven by fossil fuels, powering new technologies, society (and the global climate) has been completely changed. But like all celebrations, that process is arguably coming to an end; and like all the best parties, those who have had a really good time don’t want it to stop!
Kelly Kettles and the Practise of Zero Carbon Cooking Outdoors
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
In English, ‘kettle’ comes from the Saxon ‘ketel’ – a rare ‘loan word’ into Germanic languages from the Latin ‘catallus’, a deep pan for cooking. Why think about the origin of this word?
‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization’ (1994)
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
This was one of the first books to challenge the ‘dichotomy’ of my life within technological society. It made me choose the reality I wanted to exist within – a process best described as, “a work in progress”.
The deeper meaning buried in the data on carbon emissions – a data blog
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
The impacts of ‘dangerous exponentials’ – that even some in the finance world now seems to accept might be unsustainable – are an issue that the environment movement has failed to address.
DIY Oat Milk
By Paul Mobbs, Free Range Activism Website
Modern veganism is not, as I perceive it, a practise rooted in seeking connection to the Earth and all life thereon; it’s simply mainstream consumerism, with all its deleterious impacts on animal life, re-branded for a more affluent audience.