Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance
Corporations have stepped beyond lobbying governments. They are integrating in policy-making at the national and international levels.
Society
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 29 Vicki Robin
The third set of What Could Possibly Go Right? kicks off with host Vicki Robin reflecting on past episodes, sharing her motivation for creating this series, and revealing what she hopes to find as we embark on a new set of interviews.
Navajo Nation: From No. 1 in infections to No. 1 in vaccinations
Even though Agnes Attakai is a longtime Indian health administrator, she had no way of knowing that her Diné family members would become a textbook illustration of Native America’s disadvantages in facing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
A profit-maximizing economy creates unnecessary suffering that is entrenched and exacerbated by the ruling class it simultaneously empowers. The public must recognize that systems of concentrated power are the reason why workers were forced back to their jobs amidst an expanding plague–with sufficient government funding, it didn’t have to be that way. Serious responses to any major crisis depend on fundamental system change.
Sowing the seed of the future
Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world
The To-Do List
I’ve made a list that is as general as it can be. These steps will need to be taken in every community. This list is also practical. You can do all of it and all of it will make a difference to you and the rest of the world.
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
When someone says that humans are on a course to extinction, it elicits a yawn from most people. Epidemiologist Shanna Swan has projected the date it will begin and can tell you exactly why
What is Communal Living?
For a long time, we have been walking away from a lifestyle of community and sharing, towards an individualistic lifestyle centred around our space and our possessions.
Isn’t it high time for a change?
Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth
I reject capitalist realism as unrealistic, as an artefact of false consciousness; as false consciousness itself, blind to its ecocidal nature.
Under a White Sky: Review
In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, examines the future world we are engineering.
What Is a Migrant Worth?
The root cause of our social and environmental challenges is neoliberalism and the fetish of the market, which values profit over people and sees nature simply as a commodity.
Resources for a better future: Rewilding
There is a growing movement, largely allied with anarchist, radical environmentalist, and decolonial practice, repurposing the term rewilding to be a political and cultural project that is more than merely conservation biology, one that thinks about nature with the people in.
