Getting Mad and Getting Even
Let’s hope that California succeeds in both setting a meaningful precedent and making those companies pay in a big way, ending impunity for the most dangerous and deceitful assault on our environment in human history.
Juan Cole
Apple Abundance in Chesterfield
At this time of the year, many Transition groups gather apples that wouldn’t otherwise be harvested, and make sure they can be eaten and enjoyed.
Arthur Berman: “BRICS+, Strategic Petroleum Reserve & Metaphysics”
On this episode, Art Berman returns to give a broad update on the state of global oil – from BRICS+ and shale oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and oil investment.
The Global Energy Transition: Human Rights Risk
The pressure to hold miners and governments accountable for the entire field of known risks and externalized costs will certainly encounter resistance. But it will also increase operating costs and reduce the bottom line. At some point, the ongoing destruction undermines the social license of the industry and raises the cost of financing.
Indigenous Wisdom During The Great Unraveling
As the Great Unraveling deepens, we need as many people as possible to wake from the false, destructive dream of infinite growth and techno-utopian progress and embrace a different, deeper way of knowing and being.
The World’s Top Industrial Countries Are in Treacherous Waters
Whatever is coming will be as historically unique as our present circumstances. The ever-louder rumblings from just over the horizon suggest that, whatever it is, it’s not far off.
CAP Social Conditionality: A Game Changer for Farm Workers?
In a new CAP that largely maintains the status quo, social conditionality emerges as one of the few truly innovative elements. But is it going to be a real game-changer?
A just transition: next steps for climate movements
The climate crisis and the transition offer an opportunity to reshape our political landscape away from militaristic, colonial and neoliberal paradigms.
Abandoning the Poor
Will we continue to condemn tens of millions of us to cruel and unnecessary poverty, while feeding the drive to authoritarianism or even an all-American version of fascism, or will we move swiftly and compassionately to begin lifting the load of poverty and so strengthen the very foundation of our democracy?
Climate Politics: The View from Washington
Dominating politics this week is the war in the Middle East between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, in which thousands have died and many more have been wounded.
Deer in the Headlights
In general terms, we ought to expand our consideration to value the whole. It’s not we humans that matter, but WE, the community of life. Now let’s act like it.
Thoughts on cultural appropriation
Maybe we could spend some time today learning how indigenous peoples the world over have managed to create cultures and communities that have lasted for millennia, successfully adapting to all sorts of changes — except the advent of colonialism.
