The dangerous fallacy of ‘democracies’ and the need to reinvigorate real democracy
With bureaucracy and elite-rule gone, it is up to all members of society to directly alter the rules and limits that give shape to collective life.
Yavor Tarinski
What should we do with the perpetrators of the climate crisis?
Chuck Collins’ new book “Altar to an Erupting Sun” may be fiction, but it poses a very topical, real-world challenge for readers: What’s the right way to act when facing an existential challenge like climate change?
Taimur Ahmad: “Optimism of the Will: A Pakistani Grad Student’s Perspective”
On this episode, Nate is joined by recent Stanford graduate and biophysical researcher Taimur Ahmad to discuss energy inequality within and across nations.
What does it really mean to be resilient?
Because without water, there is no life. And at those stakes, you always want a back-up plan.
Climate Change: A Whale of a Tale
Could it be that the whales are drawing attention to themselves as a warning—expressed in anger—that human activity is turning the oceans into a deathbed?
Are These the End Times?
Peter Turchin’s latest book, End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, is receiving glowing reviews. Its message is highly relevant to our collective understanding of the emerging global polycrisis and what needs to be done to minimize it.
Active networks for global-to-local rapid transition
Localisation is an economic strategy for rapid transition that could transform farming, business, finance, health, education, and industry for the better.
Drax Accused of ‘Desperate’ Campaign to Influence Selby By-Election Candidates
Drax, the company that runs Britain’s biggest power station, stands accused by residents of “brazen politicking” in a closely fought by-election contest in Selby and Ainsty, North Yorkshire.
The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’
American Prairie, working with the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, can serve as a place where the American public can visit a landscape of an endless sky and wildlife with no fences, the likes of which you won’t see unless you go to the African Serengeti now.
Two lefts
Before I wade into blogging about my new book Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, I’d like to take a step back and try to characterize some of the broader political contours that have now put me in a different camp to George Monbiot,..
“The Heat Will Kill You First”: Rolling Stone’s Jeff Goodell on Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
The world is in the grips of a dangerous heat wave that has sent temperatures skyrocketing to deadly levels throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Movie review: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
Godzilla and this film can both be seen as modern-day parables warning of the consequences of unchecked scientific hubris and heedless meddling with nature.
