The ear tags of our cows spell the end of growth
The combination of the changed societal metabolism and the demographic drag will most likely mean the end of growth, even without the prevailing resource constraints.
The combination of the changed societal metabolism and the demographic drag will most likely mean the end of growth, even without the prevailing resource constraints.
The Rojava Revolution has inspired people everywhere and is one living reminder that although breaking free from the patriarchal capitalist system is a tremendous task and will take some lifetimes, it is, nevertheless, possible. For the worldwide community of transformation seekers, there’s a lot at stake when it comes to materialize a bright future for all – and for real.
Organizing our communities horizontally and managing to draft collectively our own programmatic agendas helps us break the supposed juxtaposition between political visions of a better society and what is politically feasible in the meantime.
Giving Elon Musk and his callow team of computer coders access to the U.S. Treasury payments system is very, very dangerous.
The Community Enterprise and Solidarity Clinic is part of a growing mutual aid movement in Chicago, Illinois.
Plastics, and the wider petrochemical industry, played a crucial part in the transformation of global capitalism from the mid-20th century onwards.
Led by anthropologist and research fellow Amber Huff, Future Natures explores “ecologies of crisis, commons, and enclosures,” but its chief output isn’t monographs and books. It’s an exuberant array of creative works in popular genres like comic books, zines, social media, videos, and podcasts.
We need a new economics focused on learning incentives, love and awareness. That will open up planning horizons and teach us a far better way to live with each other.
Now, let’s be real: 2025 is going to be a truly hard year for the poor and vulnerable in our society. But the promise and possibility of ending poverty, reclaiming democracy, and advancing peace and justice remain closer than any of us may think.
I say, you can have one or the other — shitty capitalism or met needs. There is no both. And there never has been. And the awareness of this central fact is what we now call enshitification.
As Pope Francis implores those concerned with the ecological crisis to ask themselves: “’What is the meaning of my life? What is the meaning of my time on this earth? And what is the ultimate meaning of all my work and effort?’”.
But if we are to continue at all, we have only one choice—to give up the conqueror role; to return to living simply as a small part of an organic whole.