The Global North isn’t ready for climate breakdown
In order for the global climate justice movement to be successful, leadership must come from those who have been most acutely affected by climate change.
Aranyo Aarjan
Insulate Britain: blocking roads will alienate some people – but it’s still likely to be effective
Insulate Britain is a campaign group urging government action on greenhouse gas emissions and fuel poverty in the country’s housing stock.
The fight over food at the UN’s Food Summit
So it’s also possible that this is just a ‘used future’, as Sohail Inayatullah has it—a set of ideas “created in some other context, but to which we are unconsciously holding on to, blinding us to other more authentic and empowering ideas of the future.”
Instituting liberty: Contested, changing, conflicted definitions
The definition of freedom and liberty is always contested (at any given moment, people within a society disagree); always changing (over time, societies’ understandings will shift); and always conflicted (we struggle because there are no simple policies to maximize liberty).
The Energy Bulletin Weekly
Prices rose for the fifth straight week with the global energy crunch set to boost demand for crude as stockpiles decline from the US to China.
False Harvest
We often talk about justice in terms of the harvest. There is a certain poetic fitness in this. The work that goes into creating a harvest, the sowing and cultivating, is balanced by a commensurate reward.
Time to transition to agroecology in Africa
It is time for African governments to step back from the failing Green Revolution and chart a new food system that respects local cultures and communities by promoting low-cost, low-input ecological agriculture.
Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis?
All paths out of overshoot (genuine solutions) involve a contraction of the species and a decline of material/energy throughput. There are no exceptions.
Replacement and Resentment Vs. Repair and Resilience: Scenes from an Automotive Odyssey
Even though I’ve written extensively on ecological economics and community resilience, I still feel all-too indoctrinated by our global throw-away economy. I have to remind myself to think first of local options and go the repair route whenever possible.
Whither the pluriverse? Degrowth and coloniality
Will degrowth as a discourse and movement extend coloniality, by aiming to make just one world out of the many that form the earth’s pluriverse?
Climate storytelling: Creativity and imagination in the face of bleak realities
In order to write creatively about food cultivation, climate change, and social justice, we need to understand how they operate in the world we live in. Imagining a better future, therefore, requires keen and purposeful observations of the present. It requires science.
Towards a Just Recovery from the Covid-19 Crisis
As NAFSN highlighted the implications of the viral outbreak for the region, it also considered the crisis to be an opportunity to create an alternative to the current unjust and precarious systems we are living under.
