Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the coming months, I worry that the list of Trump’s affronts to localists will grow significantly longer. Sure, there will also be opportunities for localists. And when they arise—crowdfunding reforms, for example—we will advocate for them. But right now, dear localists, we need hypervigilance and clarity of thinking. We still have 1,423 days to go.
Can we mature our understanding of wealth before it’s too late? Could we create regenerative cultures which transmute income back into wealth? And can we collectively recognize that true wealth cannot be found in our pockets but rather in the natural world we inhabit?
I have no illusions about what I can accomplish individually by not buying a Tesla or giving up my Prime membership. But as one of many – well, that’s a different story. There’s still power in the people.
One of the things that all of this reveals is that the dystopian world in which AIs have taken our jobs and left us all destitute is not so much a scenario which needs endless public policy discussion. Instead it is the return of the repressed. It’s the story that our tech billionaires wish for, but still have to pretend that they don’t.
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.
