The Elephant in the Room is Capitalism. Maybe.
That brings me to my main point:…actually, when it comes to a lot of things – if we want to talk about ‘the elephant in the room’, it isn’t human population. It’s capitalism.
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If Nature Is Sacred, Capitalism Is Wicked
The conflict between capitalism and the environment is the fight of the century.
No, Capitalism Isn’t Making Us All Richer and Richer
If you frequent mainstream right-libertarian publications on anything like a regular basis, you’ve probably seen more than one of those breathless articles about how capitalism is making the ordinary poor person richer than a medieval king.
Capitalism and (De)Growth
I think about capitalism as a moment. A blink in time.
Capitalism, The State And War: Review
There are many parallels between the period of the two world wars and the current period, Alexander Nievas excellent account of this prior period provides any insights useful to the present.
Undoing the Ideology of Growth
Degrowth aims at undoing growth.
Compost Capitalism
‘The pain we feel is capitalism dying.’ The words left an impression on me I think because they describe that strange, existential ache that we probably have all felt at some time or another, when contemplating how we should live our lives in a world that seems so tragically off track.
“The Divide” Shows Inequality on the Big Screen
Inequality represents simultaneously a cornerstone and a weak link in today’s capitalism.
Epiconomics 102 : The Sunlight Economy
The adoption of The Paris Agreement by 195 countries on December 12, 2015 marks the end of the era of fossil fuels.
Does a Fear of Death Lie at the Heart of Capitalism?
To fundamentally transform capitalism we must transform the existential fear that feeds it.
Epiconomics 101: Our Fiscal Genome
There is no reason why the inane policies of economic astrologers could not be quickly reversed by protein protagonists with simple but compelling histological reforms, such as basing the future on a bioeconomy that sequesters carbon and runs on sunlight.
Exit from the Megamachine
Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes.
