Defining “Economic Development” in Statutory Law: Content and Strategy
The only way to arrive at a safe, sustainable, steady state economy is with substantial behavioral and political reform.
Brian Czech
Why 2% Is the Most Dangerous Number No One Is Talking About
If sexually reproducing animals, including humans, lose the ability to yield offspring, then in the future the biosphere may host a radically reduced roster of higher life forms.
Keeping Her Place
Farming livestock involves a daily exertion of power over life and death.
Humanity’s Moment: Excerpt
As a climate scientist, I am doing everything I possibly can to respond to the distress signals from our natural world. If I live to look back at this troubled time, I want to say that I did all that I could, that I was on the right side of history.
The Many Shapes of the Carbon Pulse
In this Frankly, Nate describes the Carbon Pulse – a one time massive consumption of fossil hydrocarbons at a pace millions of times faster than they were created.
From Bad Faith Politics To Good Faith Politics
Once it deeply sank into my consciousness that politics means nothing much other than simply “decision-making in groups”, it was clear I had a hold of a very simple and basic concept which would enable me to think clearly and freshly about … well, politics.
The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
We know it is empirically possible to achieve a just and sustainable world economy. But our hope can only ever be as strong as our struggle.
My Brother Has Wheels
We are taught to judge one another based on what we contribute economically, but Ethan defies these expectations. I wonder if I manage to communicate to strangers how, in spite of his “profound disability”, Ethan is still a profoundly dynamic and important individual.
Plenitude
My garden is a plenum – a spatially continuous living community which includes me, its caretaker – and I intuitively experience it as such while simultaneously perceiving a visual panorama, an audible space filled with the music of cicadas, crickets and birds as well as an expanse of floral perfume.
Learning never ends
It is sad that we have pulled so far away from experiential learning that we think summer is for vacationing and autumn is when we go back to the grind… that school is a grind confined in a classroom… that learning is confined to childhood.
Towards Strategies for Social Change beyond Domination
In this sense, a post-capitalist and post-domination society will require its own set of institutions, whose creation must begin from today.
Degrowthers Gain Support as Planet Cooks. Can They Ally With Green New Dealers?
A world of radical democracy and equality — of “public luxury and private sufficiency,” with much less hierarchy and much more free time — would enable historic advances in the quality of life for the masses even if some consumer goods disappear from the menu.
