How economics abandoned time (to create a myopic culture)
We have squandered 80 years on a wrong conception of how our economy works. There is much to fix…
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George Monbiot on factory farming: a Simpler Way critique
George has a long and heroic record of fighting for the environment. His latest campaign is to reduce the huge burden that farming inflicts on global ecosystems, by shifting much food production to high-tech “factory farming”. But he fails to see The Simpler Way solution.
The Barbie Backlash
We can exist in world that is both creating something better and destroying itself at the same time. That’s why I went to the Barbie party.
Hockey Sticks and Crosses
Two types of images are key to understanding current debates about economic globalization: the hockey stick chart, representing the stunning and inexorable growth of some phenomenon; and the cross chart, whose lines represent changes in relative power and prosperity.
Existing outside the box: How community-centred philosophies can help shape a degrowth society
In order to challenge existing systems or imagine a degrowth world, our solutions cannot be generated from within. We need a different, external perspective. Perhaps this is how Ubuntu and Indigenous peoples like the Achuar can help.
60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists
Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality.
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.
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.
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.
