Review: The Crash Course, Revised Edition by Chris Martenson
As a comprehensive guide to the intractable challenges facing our society and how best to navigate them, The Crash Course has few rivals.
Frank Kaminski
Are you preparing for degrowth? And if not, why not?
In any event, whether or not you believe a paradigm shift is coming, it still makes sense to act as if you do; because, like Pascal’s Wager, the consequences of betting the wrong way are infinitely worse.
Kaiao, Elua
It is makahiki, the beginning of the rains
and through this falling fertility
the garden crying out
with a deeper, a darker gingery voice
to these young gardeners…
Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Artificial Intelligence and The Superorganism”
On this episode, Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to discuss a surprisingly overlooked risk to our global systems and planetary stability: artificial intelligence.
Goodbye to the American Century
However uncomfortable the leaders of China, India, and the United States might be when it comes to collaborating with their counterparts, they will have little choice if they are to escape an increasingly calamitous future.
The Old Future Is Gone, and Technology Won’t Bring It Back
In coming decades, it will be essential that communities across the nation and world find a way to sustain a decent life amid ecological breakdown, in a future they themselves didn’t create.
The Unspeakable Death of the ‘Almighty Dollar’
That is what might be about to end: The reality that, since colonialism arose in the Sixteenth Century, it has been the transfer of economic value from the Global South which has historically supported the ‘civilised’ lifestyle that denoted The West’s global supremacy.
Post-growth Europe: 400+ experts call for wellbeing economy
As political leaders gather for a second conference at the European Parliament on how to move “beyond growth”, we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation.
Reconnect With Beans – Take Our Food Power Back
To quit the existing model, we need to have bigger ambitions, collectively. We need more of us.
The Two Joes and What They Mean for US Climate Policy
At least one-half of last year’s Washington power couple — Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) — has taken to holding hostage the other Joe’s climate plans and promises.
On Climate: Grieve, Cry, But Don’t Give Up!
Grief calls climate activists to embrace the most difficult challenge: to fight to save as much life as possible and—hopefully—to restore some of what’s gone.
Zapatista Knowledge: Theoretico-political ontoepistemic alter-natives in times of war and civilisational collapse
What we are experiencing today on planet Earth has been called in different ways “World War IV”, “slow, silent and lethal social holocaust”, “systemic crisis”, “global crisis of capitalism”, “polycrisis”, “crisis of Western capitalist (hetero)patriarchal civilisation”, “crisis of the hegemonic civilisational pattern”.
