Cultural Obsolescence & Ontological Revolution: bringing philosophy into the 21st century
We can barely even begin to imagine an amodern / postmodern / metamodern relational culture. But imagining it we must.
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Self-driving cars are driving right into their own grave
Autonomous vehicles as currently deployed face a conceptual flaw that can’t be overcome
Direct democracy and the need for physical space
The project of direct democracy, being a socio-political system that is incompatible with the Nation-State-Capital complex, implies radical change to people’s relations to physical space.
Wolfgang Knorr – When Fear of Defeat becomes Self-Fulfilling
There is an uncomfortable question here that we all need to answer: how much do we actually care about the climate crisis? Why would negotiators and activists at COP28 invoke such impossible optimism to dispel a sense of defeat?
Towards a Mountain Teaching Pedagogy
It is the spirit we wish to carry, manifesting a post-growth world we want to live in. In the Mountain School, there is rational knowledge for the mind, opening and nourishment for the hearts, and practical challenges for the hands.
Climate-friendly food systems start with different values, not technologies
If we start instead by attending to aspirational values — such as equity, empowerment, and respect and reciprocity with the natural world — we will better see the long-term transformative potential of solutions we already have in hand to build food systems that are more sustainable, regenerative and just.
Where should we live?
Political Will will not feed us. Nor will he make it possible to sustain the systems that rely on extravagant use — and waste — of resources. To most of the world, this is obvious.
Arthur Berman: “Shale Oil and the Slurping Sound”
On this episode, Arthur Berman returns to unpack the complexity underpinning the oil trends of the last 75 years and what new data can tell us about availability in the coming years.
CoP28: no speed limit imposed to avert collision
A national poll, commissioned from market research company Ipsos as part of the report, revealed that just one in four UK adults (26%) believe global average temperatures are likely to, or definitely will, be limited to 1.5°C by 2100.
Wasp Wisdom
One way to measure the change I’ve undergone in the last several years is via wasps. That’s right: wasps.
It’s as if I woke up one morning realizing that I grew up in a society of human supremacists, that I was one too, and that I no longer want to live that way.
The COP is the Scoreboard, not the Game
For two weeks every December, the giant global climate meeting—this year with at least 70,000 delegates, lobbyists, activists, and journalists enjoying the tacky spaceport that is Dubai—provides a cascade of feelings.
Global Tapestry of Alternatives: Weaving Transformation Connections
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) was initiated in mid-2019 as a confluence of movements of radical transformation for collaboration, solidarity, and visioning from local to global levels.
