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catabolic capitalism

Friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction

May 20, 2021May 18, 2021 by Samuel Alexander

In an age now widely described as the Anthropocene, the conventionally held distinction between sanity and insanity is at risk of collapsing … and taking our civilisation with it.

Categories Environment, Society, Society featured Tags catabolic capitalism, environmental crises, insanity, limits of growth, mental health, mental illness Leave a comment

Can We Exit This Road to Ruin?

February 16, 2021 by Craig Collins

Catabolic capitalism is an energy depleted, self-cannibalizing economy whose insatiable hunger for profit can only be fed by breaking down the society that sustains it.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy, Energy, Environment, Society Tags catabolic capitalism, collapse of industrial civilization, tribalism Leave a comment
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