How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Rich countries have exported climate breakdown through extractive industries, creating a “carbon colonialism.”
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A Vision for Sustainable Community Consciousness
Understanding how the root causes of our existential crisis lie in our behaviors, our individual and social behaviors, we can move to address the all-important role of culture in the creation and maintenance of sustainable communities.
Q: Are new liquid airline fuels good climate policy? A: Pigs might fly.
The only effective way currently available for emissions reductions from aviation to align with the 2015 Paris Agreement limits, is through a dramatic reduction in the number flights — an action not seriously addressed in the government’s transport emissions reduction roadmap.
“Our Future is Ancestral:” The Micro-Revolution of Ethno-Tourism
Looking back can teach us how to move forward. That’s why, to close with Krenak’s words, our future is ancestral.
The Te Awa Tupua Act: An Inspiration for Communities to Take Responsibility for Their Ecosystems
The historic act, which recognized a river as a legal entity, deliberately moves away from litigation and places community decision-making at its center.
Review: Two Tribes
History also teaches us that times of uncertainty and instability are fertile conditions for populists and those with dark agendas, as people under stress often seek simple answers to complex problems, which often dredges up an instinct to blame and see ‘us and them’ divisions. This looks to be bubbling to the surface as unrest in many parts of the world, of which the UK is now exemplary.
Markets can’t save us
The economy, aka capitalism, is governed by growth and competition. Therefore, the currently popular notion that businesses or the private sector will drive sustainability is delusional.
Thanks to Trump, Climate Policy Has a Chance in 2024
For the US to have any chance of transitioning to a low-carbon economy in anything approximating the next 25 years, it will need to be lifted from the trenches of the culture wars. The US cannot continue to spend equal time at the extremes, believing it will all balance out in the end. It doesn’t.
Degrowth aims to achieve ‘frugal abundance’
Degrowth is about building societies in which everyone is rich – without much material. It is a desirable project to strive for.
MM #16: Recap and Mythology
Modernity is a sort of flight-of-fancy: a mode that our flexible brains allowed us to pursue, while lacking sufficient cognitive power to really understand what it means or think it all through.
Not if, but when: The coming North Atlantic deep freeze
In the next few decades, climate change is likely to have a counterintuitive effect on the North Atlantic and northern Europe when a major ocean current which brings heat from the tropics is projected to shut down.
Solving the housing crisis via the commons
The Housing Commons is like Aikido; it uses the force of the attack – the insane and dangerous cruelty of ever-increasing house prices – to provide the force whereby we preserve ourselves
