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Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic

By Stan Cox, Resilience.org

Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.

Green growth vs degrowth: are we missing the point?

By Beth Stratford, Open Democracy

So, let us reach a truce and build a mass movement to take on the real enemies of environmental justice. The stakes are too high to do anything else.

Why the Global North must Become a Student of the Global South

By Jakob Bowers, Future Earth

It would be arrogant and irresponsible for the global North not to look to cultures in the global South that have sustained themselves for vastly longer than it has taken industrial capitalism to annihilate much of the living world.

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The Role of Innovative Monetary Policies in Supporting a Green New Deal and a More Sustainable Future for Europe and the World

By Deirdre De Burca, Feasta

Ideally, in the context of implementing a Green New Deal, the state would work with civil society and business and in partnership with other states to design, plan and activate the systemic transition to steady state sustainability. A culture and mindset that value sufficiency, limits, sharing, justice and care should be encouraged.

Liberation Ecology

By Leonardo Boff, Allen White, The Great Transition

Today, we realize that a finite Earth cannot support endless growth that overshoots the Earth’s biophysical limits and threatens long-term human survival and Mother Earth’s bounty.