The Energy Bulletin Weekly 30 August, 2022
Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said ‘cutting production at any time’ was an option for OPEC+…
Tom Whipple
The Authoritarian Fetish
This article questions the wisdom that climate-induced political changes are inevitably authoritarian; and suggests instead that centralisation and political dominion will weaken as we leave the stable Holocene era, potentially — but by no means necessarily — opening the possibility for more reciprocal models of political organisation.
Degrowth: No, Let’s Not Call It Something Else
We don’t need to change the name ‘degrowth’. What we need is for more of us in wealthy nations to intuitively associate the term ‘economic growth’ with ‘collapse’.
A novelist, a journalist and an anthropologist…
When it comes to applying these lessons to agricultural history in Britain or elsewhere with a view to creating a just and renewable agrarian future, what I take from Sahlins’s thought is almost the opposite of what a superficial reading of ‘The original affluent society’ might suggest.
Invisible force: Why culture will determine humanity’s future
Cultures define what we know about the world, and so what we do in the world. We need to pay them more attention.
Time Dis-ordered
We are kept busy doing things that are harmful to ourselves and to this planet specifically to keep our attention divided enough that we do not have time to notice that we are busy doing things that are harmful to ourselves and to this planet.
Degrowth Gains Ground
The Future Is Degrowth invites us to envision a much deeper societal transition than simply swapping energy sources to maintain the status quo.
The End of Abundance
Nate shares what this watershed moment in the global political narrative means for Europe, the U.S. and the world – as we rapidly become less “energy-blind”.
GDP is a useless measurement. But what should replace it?
This once-fringe idea of going ‘beyond GDP’ is finally appearing at the highest level of international policy discussions and inside governments from New Zealand to Wales.
The Café That’s Upending Capitalism
Inside this brick storefront, something much more radical is brewing: a business model that could upend the traditional capitalistic business structure.
Reality Is Not What It Seems. And That Might Just Save the Climate
Quantum social activism invites us to think differently about familiar dilemmas, and see what new possibilities may open as a result.
Why we should abandon the concept of the ‘climate refugee’
Rather than accept these terms at face value, we might instead ask ourselves: who does the idea of the climate migrant, or climate refugee, really serve?
