Net-zero emissions by 2050: Leadership or climate colonialism?
In Lewis Carroll’s words: “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
But we do know: it is net-zero emissions by 2030, not 2050.
Ian Dunlop
Toward an age of low tech for a more resilient and sustainable society
I believe ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems and propose a different ‘low tech’ approach to building a more resilient, equitable and sustainable society.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 21 Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling book “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life.” Lynne brings a soulful connection to the question of What Could Possibly Go Right?
Review: Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
If you find yourself overwhelmed trying to make sense of and track the multiple crises now confronting us — climate and energy, economic inequity, systemic racism and sexism, the COVID-19 pandemic — there is good news. Help is at hand.
The US election: perspectives from an ear of grain
The story of trying to hold the existing political centre will be a story of fascism, Caesarism, bread and circuses. Whereas the non-fascist story will be one of trying to create livelihoods as convivially as possible, mostly from the local resources – human and non-human – to hand.
Of Splitting Oak and People (and How to Prevent the Latter)
We can notice where our values have become inverted and choose instead to reassert the values known to support life. As we do, we’ll notice that we are not mere logs inverted on the stump of humanity, waiting to be split, but part of a larger, living tree.
Citizen Empowerment Against Conspiracy Theories
In order for the wave of irrational and anti-scientific conspiracies to be tackled in any meaningful way, people en masse have to be empowered.
The Economic Superorganism: Excerpt
In the context of the energy and economic narratives, who needs more willpower? Do our political leaders need “political will” to constrain the choices for both public and private energy company investments?
The Energy Bulletin Weekly: 2 November 2020
Oil posted its largest monthly drop since March as renewed lockdown measures to contain the coronavirus threatened to upend a shaky demand recovery.
A Universe of Stories
Amidst ecological and social disruption – compounded now by the rolling Covid-19 crisis – that uneasy stasis is over. In this new context, the term ‘Nowtopia’ is increasingly used by both activists and academics to describe a variety of interconnected tendencies.
‘Herd Immunity’ Is an Inviting Idea but Terrible Policy
There is no quick way out of this pandemic, but there is an assured way forward. It requires competent government, flexible economies and attentive citizens.
Reflecting on the emerging strategy debate in the degrowth movement
We believe the degrowth community should invest time and energy into the creation and legitimisation of a Degrowth International, to conduct these processes of collective deliberation.
