Our Time on the River
We might now wish to slow things down, but modernity was built on a lie; a fatal flaw. If we voiced the command: “Slow down, Hal,” we’d get the response: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Tom Murphy
60 Years After the March on Washington, Black Economic Inequality Persists
Sixty years after the famed March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his landmark “I Have a Dream” speech, African Americans are on a path where it will take 500 more years to reach economic equality.
‘Historic and Wonderful’: Ecuadorians Reject Oil Drilling in Precious Amazon Region
Ecuadorians voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to reject oil drilling in a section of Yasuní National Park, the most biodiverse area of the imperiled Amazon rainforest.
Reckoning with ‘the battering ram of the Anthropocene’
Is the word right on the tip of your tongue? You know, the word that sums up the ecological effects of more, faster and bigger vehicles, driving along more and wider lanes of roadway, throughout your region and all over the world?
There are No Gaian Teachers, Only Gaia
Every sip of water, every breath of air, every morsel of food, and every time my heart beats. Gaia is within and around me. Who better to learn from than that?
How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.
A Long Way to Venus
We may not end up like Venus, but we are already at the brink of a hot, unstable world well beyond our ability to cope as a civilization.
Enough of experts? The farming climate narrative as class conflict
I’m going to continue my present mini-theme concerning emerging class conflicts around agrarian localism with a few words about current antipathies between farmers and ‘experts’.
Collapse 2.0
Not only does the collapse of modern industrial civilization appear ever more likely, but the process already seems underway.
Jean-Marc Jancovici: “Our Global Energy Predicament”
On this episode, Nate is joined by well-known French educator Jean-Marc Jancovici to discuss the critical importance of energy to modern economies.
The Inflation Reduction Act: Standing at a Double-cross Roads
Biden has consistently mentioned in his roadshow presentations that many—if not most—people probably don’t understand the peculiarly named act’s relationship to combatting climate change and expanding the domestic economy.
The Apocalyptic Sublime
Thus, in the face of extreme pessimism, which in the past has tempted me to despair, I can now offer readers an aesthetic justification for existence, which I believe is both coherent, compelling, even hopeful – despite everything.
