Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
James Dyke The climate system has many potential tipping points, such as ice sheets disappearing or dense rainforests becoming significantly drier and more open. It would be very difficult, effectively impossible, to recover these systems once they go beyond a tipping point.
Digging into sand reveals how current development paradigms work in service to capital — and at the expense of people’s wellbeing.
Alberta owns a new record. The province is home to an abandoned and unplugged gas well that leaks methane, an explosive greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere at the highest rate ever recorded in North America.
Our weeds are just where they belong, in our fields, along our roads, in every compromised, degraded, or devastated ecosystem. Free food and medicine in our backyards. Essential for ecosystem restoration, perhaps they will also be essential for our future food and medicine.
The relevance of what we do at TIPPSE was recently made clear by the publication of Cyborgian Marc Andreesen’s The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Our work countering this manifesto, and many others produced by Phalse Prophets, are an example of Brandolini’s Law, which states: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Here is a list of studies, surveys and polling results that shed some light on popular perceptions of post-growth and post-capitalist ideas. I will seek to update this list periodically.
Still, the wider issues concerning food, land and labour are important, and in view of the present historical moment on our farm and in the world it seems opportune to discuss them.
The real contribution of native tribes at this point might be to be more aggressive in showing us exactly what we are losing. Will that make any difference?
On this special 100th episode, Nate is interviewed by his friend and colleague in the metacrisis space, Kate Raworth. The conversation is a reflection on the past two years of podcasting – and how Nate’s worldview has evolved because of it.
President Biden may have trouble making good on the $3 billion pledge given Republican opposition—particularly in the House. Any promises by the administration are somewhat suspect by other nations and climate activists, given the possibility of a second Trump administration.
Yes, this is the role of the human and this is the choice of the dramatist—to see truth, to witness its drama, to accept the opportunity, to have great power, to hold loosely its abiding weight, and then to trip headlong into the boundless triumphs and pains and beauties made and gifted everlasting in the love of land, of the all of us.
The question sure to dominate the two weeks of meetings and negotiations will be: where is the justice?
