Orthodoxy vs. Orthopraxy
I don’t want there to be a president… I want to see people doing what is needed. I want there to be orthopraxy. And that isn’t going to happen anywhere in the realm of politics.
Society
High in the Himalayas, resistance to Modi is on the rise
Amid the gloomy picture, the recent climate fast movement has become a sign of hope for the people of Ladakh.
The Deluge, by Stephen Markley
The Deluge is a tome, a vast and sprawling novel with myriad narrative threads. Tracking the future of American society between 2013–2040 against the backdrop of worsening climate change, the reader is shown a nation plunging fitfully into turmoil – with hard-fought moments of recovery and sudden, devastation catastrophes.
The 20 Control Knobs for a Post-Growth Future
What if we purposefully turn the ‘control knobs’ in our own lives to shift how we approach a post-growth future by embracing reality – instead of unrealistic tech solutions – redirecting our focus towards deeper interconnection with community and local systems?
Crazy Ideas, Wise Strategies, Small Politics
At the very moment when our survival demands a deep overturning of what we have long believed to be true and proper, settling for less will look like the crazier option.
Jonathan Rowson: The Flip, the Formation, and the Fun: A Metamodern Framework for Human Futures
Today’s conversation with philosopher and social scientist Jonathan Rowson dives into the emerging ways of being that could serve us as we move toward a post-growth world, including what he has found particularly helpful in his decades of work studying the metacrisis.
Indigenous lands now reported key to mitigating climate change in Brazil
In April, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recognized an additional two Indigenous territories, including one 32,000-hectare (more than 79,000-acre) territory belonging to the Karajá peoples in Mato Grosso. According to a new study published in the journal Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, this act alone could quite possibly be the best investment not just for Indigenous rights, but for securing the future climate stability of the state.
Earth & Soul, Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos: Excerpt
Without attending to our own continued transformation, we cannot hope to align with the living world to create a tapestry of a beautiful future
Facing a Future of Fewer and Less: “Tell Them at Least What You Say to Yourself”
Changing our political and economic systems to make a decent human existence possible in a big-picture future is crucial, but so is learning to live within the existing systems in ways that are decent in small ways today.
Stubborn Expectations
The major development underpinning the prospect for an early-century peak in human population and even earlier peak in civilizational power is a rapid and seemingly unexpected decline in fertility rates across the world. All regions except Africa are now below the replacement rate, and still falling.
Another England, or Another Rome?
The present global meta-crisis seems certain to affect not just global politics but also the underlying structure of global politics in the existing system of nation-states. What’s the outlook for modern nation-states as the crisis unfolds?
The Addiction Afflicting Billions—A Conversation with Chellis Glendinning on Ecopsychology and Addiction Recovery
Post Carbon Institute Senior Fellow and author Richard Heinberg interviews Chellis Glendinning, activist, social critic, and author of My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization, as well as eight other books. Chellis shares with Richard what we can learn from events in our planet’s history – particularly the rapid global temperature increase of about 7ºC roughly 56 million years ago – to better understand and prepare for a rapidly unraveling climate system.
