Energy Descent: Public Letter
There will be less energy to go around – but there will be more equality and more meaningful ways of living. This future may have less energy – but it will have more of what really matters.
There will be less energy to go around – but there will be more equality and more meaningful ways of living. This future may have less energy – but it will have more of what really matters.
This article is part of the Primer For Paradigm Shift Series and will describe taking the ideals and actions of paradigm shift to a wider audience. We have many allies and assets to work with for sharing what paradigm shift has to offer the wider world.
We seek not to destroy capitalism, nor to reform it, but to transcend it – to consciously and rapidly evolve past it.
On this episode, Nate is joined by Solar Oven collector and educator Luther Krueger to discuss the ins and outs of solar cooking.
The goal of this book is thus to develop a new way of thinking about planetary futures that can help us create more useful and comprehensive maps of the possibility space.
We don’t need high-tech innovation to create a sustainable future for humanity. In fact, all the tech we need to regenerate our ecosystem and provide a good life for all already exists.
This year, perhaps now more than ever, we need a taste of what policymaking underpinned by the radical imagination looks like.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights.
This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for — the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor — are, in effect, back on the ballot.
Rather than double down on a failing technological approach to living in this world, we can start walking away from modernity, and figure out new ways to live.
Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn’t hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technology to save us from previous technology.
When it comes to a green future, money isn’t everything. In the case of Indigenous peoples, there also needs to be a variety of support and cultural understanding.