How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.
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Ecology Councils: Grassroots Climate Strategies from Mesopotamia
The creation of local ecology councils, transnationally interconnected with each other, could be an immensely important step towards developing sustainable answers to climate change.
“Unlearning Economics”: Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, and Kate Raworth
On this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, and Kate Raworth – all of whom are leading thinkers and educators in the field of heterodox economics.
No gender justice without climate justice
New debt crises are bringing a fresh wave of austerity to the global south, with a disproportionate impact on women.Â
Which future?
A civilization with a decent quality of life based on renewable energy and renewable and reused materials, and guided by a strong ecological and humanitarian ethic, could offer a path forward that is worthy of the label “human.”
Business as Usual
Though science must put a pin in a moment of history as a baseline, and even though that pin is a valuable composite of economic conditions, what is coming unraveled is the underlying commitment to a way of seeing the world that contains its own seeds of destruction.
On Technology and Degrowth
Degrowth scholarship embraces technological change and efficiency improvements, to the extent (crucially) that these are empirically feasible, ecologically coherent, and socially just.
Against AI sensationalism
Yes, AI is scary, but it is ultimately a reflection of our current system, and it is the introduction of AI into an already repressive environment that we must question.
It’s time for tool libraries to go global
Tool libraries have the potential to simultaneously decrease material usage and increase access to material goods, both of which are needed if we are to create a more equitable and ecological society.
Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts
Ending the unequal exchange that traps the Global South in poverty and extractivism and paving the way for a degrowth transition will require an alliance of countries prepared to default on their foreign debts, and strong movements in the Global North ready to defend them when they do.
Guess What Has Decoupled from Economic Growth?
To promote both human health and environmental quality, countries would focus not on growing the GDP, but rather on different goals including education.
The Commonsverse as a Parallel Polis: Opportunities and Challenges
Politicians and economists may dismiss the commons with a wave of the hand, but commoners understand a deeper truth – that the presumptions of capitalist modernity are profoundly flawed, if not already collapsing.
