Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind, according to a new study from a USC neuroscience group. Fast-paced digital media tools may direct some heavy users away from traditional avenues for learning about humanity, such as engagement with literature or face-to-face social interactions.
Paying for the excesses of youth
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
Attenborough warns on population
Overpopulation is a cultural challenge
India’s Farming ‘Revolution’ Heading For Collapse
‘Green Revolution’ Trapping India’s Farmers In Debt
Punjab farmer suicides cast shadow on polls
What Your Neighborhood Needs is a Seed Library
Among the implications of the implosion of the global economy over the last year is that the great quarrel of the Cold War years between capitalism and socialism was a contest between two dysfunctional and failure-prone systems. As peak oil becomes a fact of life, is it time to start looking for other options?
Andy Rooney Comments On The Changing Environment And Admits He’s Part Of The Problem
WWF Scotland boss calls for energy wasters to be prosecuted
The Gospel of Consumption and the better future we left behind
Equality Needs to Be Our Organizing Principle
Consumption dwarfs population as main environmental threat
India Rejects Calls For Emission Cuts
Rich-Poor Divide Still Stalls Climate Accord
What will global warming look like? Scientists point to Australia
World can halt global warming, activist says
The Coming Siege of Austerity
What’s the secret to an endless vacation?
Austere Times? Perfect
Developer shrugs off recession, plots all-solar Fla. city
Is America’s love affair with the “exburbs” over?
Sustainability a growing movement at colleges, universities across Canada
Archbishop makes credit crunch case for monastic lifestyle in Easter sermon
UK goes into ecological debt on Easter Sunday
Weak pound heaps food price inflation on poorest households
Mayor unveils plan to turn London into ‘electric car capital of Europe’
Malthus might have earned more respect for his Law of Population if he hadn’t proposed it just at the moment when human production first tapped into the coal seams and oil streams that fueled the industrial expansion. It is only today, when those resources have peaked, that we are revealed to be much more like the other animals than we thought…
It is this that my readership has in common – anti-modernism, a fundamental skepticism that economic growth, more energy, more technology, more shiny things, minor economic social change and other incremental variations on the same basic themes can resolve the deeper problems.
We need to recognize the phrase “until all the evidence is in” for what it really is: 1) a stalling technique, 2) a reflection of the ignorance of the speaker about the limits of our knowledge or 3) a colloquialism signaling the desire to wait for more information.
