Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
To be sustainable as a global village — to be able to keep all of our human and ecological systems healthy — we also need to aggressively identify and bring to market a wide range of affordable, ecologically-sound development strategies in the highly-populated, emerging nations.
Author Jedediah Purdy looks at a world irrevocably changed by humans and finds that it demands a fundamentally different politics – one that places a moral value on climates and landscapes and takes responsibility for future generations.
Two centuries of explosive economic growth have radically altered our material and ideological worlds.
Much has been made lately of the so-called Anthropocene — the idea that Homo sapiens has so taken over and modified Earth that we need a new name for our geological age instead of the outmoded Holocene.
The point is not that the Anthropocene should be abandoned—clearly it’s had its uses. But should it be a call-to-action for climate researchers and activists alike?
An invitation for young people to participate in their future.
Little support for actual Malthusian policies can be found in scientific literature about the Anthropocene. Population growth is included as one element of the Great Acceleration, which it obviously is, but it isn’t identified as the main problem.
How the anti-green ‘Breakthrough Institute’ misrepresents science to advance a technocratic agenda and undermine grassroots environmentalism.
We can take the next step in our evolution, a step towards the Permacene.
Neo-green environmentalism is holding onto the core belief in the rightfulness or inevitability of a human-governed planet.
Mother Earth has a never-before-seen portrait now on show, thanks to three pieces of planetary-scale research published this week.
Joshua Farley presenting at the Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth conference.
