Climate: The Crisis and the Movement
The attraction of profit in the short-term overwhelms longer-term considerations, even for the most “enlightened” of businesspeople.
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How Liberal Democracy Promotes Inequality
…Rates of global inequality are simply unprecedented. And neoliberalism is to blame.
A brief history of contemporary “consumerism” and anti-consumerism
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
Naomi Klein in conversation about This Changes Everything
A conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, and Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.
Review: This Changes Everything – Capitalism vs. the Climate
Climate activists, she believes, need to take a similarly clear moral stance. And as she writes, ‘the climate movement has yet to find its full moral voice on the world stage, but it is most certainly clearing its throat’.
Post-Capitalism
What is more relevant to me than the fiction of property is the precise nature of the social agreements that define and underlie property.
Naomi Klein on the Great Clash Between Capitalism and the Climate
Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate is coming out just as the UN is meeting on climate change, and a massive rally to protest the lack of progress on global warming is shaping up in Manhattan on Sunday.
Can we leverage common assets to reduce inequality?
Everybody talks a lot about economic inequality, but there don’t seem to be many credible proposals out there, let alone ones that have political legs.
The Transition Movement: Questions of Diversity, Power, and Affluence – Part 2
This raises the question: To what extent can the Transition movement avoid the pain, hardship, and conflict historically associated with significant social movements…?
Cold War leftovers
One should be grateful to one’s critics–it is much better to be criticized than ignored.
The Conservative Case for a Commons Way of Life
At its root, the Distributist movement sought a practical, community-oriented alternative to the inequality of capitalism and the bureaucracy of socialism.
A Manifesto for Planetary Health
One of the most fascinating things I read recently was The Lancet’s Manifesto for Planetary Health…
