Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future
During the early decades of the century, the market will lose its magic.
David Fleming
Why I’m Not Devastated
So what if, to the extent we live in a place where we can, we turn disappointment and bitterness into deep, perhaps sad, reflection?
Leaving our “Extractivist” past behind is about survival
Naomi Klein: “We are told that selfishness and short-sightedness is part of human nature, which prevents us acting. This is not true and it steers us away from an analysis of our [capitalist] system. In fact, the fight for survival is human nature.”
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: It’s Time We Divest From the Pipelines – the Pipelines of Film & Television (part 4/4)
There is no single extremely viable change we could make in our lives to combat fossil fuel consumption (and thus climate change) than ditching film and television.
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Live by the Camera & TV Screen, Die by the Camera & Movie Screen (part 3/4)
Do film and television provide a net befefit, or might they actually be an overall loss when it comes to climate change and other major problems of ours?
Trudeau and Climate: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
The new face of Canada showed at Paris COP21 held out hope for many Canadians climate activists for a change of course on the climate. This week’s announcements on national climate pricing falls far short of what is required for fighting climate change.
The Fallacy of Economic Growth
Political elites, both on the Right and on the Left, seem to agree on the necessity of constant economic growth, even at the cost of ecological catastrophe. They say we need growth in order to deal with present social problems, but can it be that this narrative is a fallacy?
Earth Church Is Not Cool
This frees us from the need to answers to the question “how should we live?”, at least in any grand manner.
Accelerationism… and Degrowth? The Left’s Strange Bedfellows
The accelerationists begrudged the enviros their grub-eating utopia while they ruminated on their own techno-fetishes. Was it just an armistice to prepare for a bigger battle down the road, or was there really less animosity than I imagined?
The Grass Really is Greener, Especially Between the Rails
If you can use your local bus service without too much inconvenience, you can vote for public transit with your feet and your dollars. You don’t have to wait for a referendum, and you can vote as often as you like.
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Politics Doesn’t Trump Physics, Nor the Economics of Collapse (part 2/3)
Politics can be egalitarian when going up Hubbert’s Curve, but it’s a whole different story when going down.
Just 16,000 Catenary Trucks Would Use All of California’s Electricity with only 2400 to 8300 Miles of Overhead Wires
It makes sense to electrify trucks since fuel from oil, coal, and natural gas is finite and biomass doesn’t scale up. Trucks make electricity possible.
