By Radmila Nakarada, Great Transition Initiative
Neoliberal capitalism expands, incorporates, and creates new non-transparent locations of power and decision-making, but also victims with distorted perceptions of self-interest and limited or no capacity for collective action.
By Karen M’Closkey, Keith VanDerSys, Resilience.org
As the need for large-scale migration to safer areas becomes more accepted (or we wait until we have no choice), these inequities will only be exacerbated unless policies are put in place to prevent it.
By Vicki Robin, Juliet Schor, Resilience.org
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College, a member of the MacArthur Foundation Connected Learning Research Network, and co-founder of the Center for a New American Dream. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Michael Wilson Becerril, ROAR Magazine
In the face of environmental collapse, deepening inequalities and capitalism in crisis, resisting violence effectively requires rethinking its meanings and challenging its hegemonic constructions.
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Society is producing too many elite people, and their decisions are causing extreme inequality, which is one of the key components of today’s sustainability crisis.
By Sam Pizzigati, Inequality.org
Manchester’s new strategic gameplan comes from a special commission that metro area’s top governing body created last October “to survey the damage done and the inequalities exposed” over the past year and recommend what Manchester can do to transcend those inequalities.
By Gurminder K. Bhambra, Wiley Online Library
Not accounting for the historical processes and legacies of colonialism in the construction of inequalities both within and across countries is a fatal flaw in Piketty's analysis and undercuts the possibility of constructing a politics that could address the problems of our time.
By Neal Rockwell, Uneven Earth
The Asset Economy, a new monograph published by Polity Books may help shed some light on the economic structures that could provoke this unusual K-shaped economic phenomenon.
By Chuck Collins, Open Democracy
Today’s massive concentrations of wealth and power are disruptive to democratic institutions, social cohesion, and economic stability for all. It’s time for a billionaire wealth tax.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
In my latest podcast we are exploring how it would be if Feeney’s thinking were to be embraced by those holding the vast reserves of money that the world needs to address its complex problems right now. What if they shifted and recognised the need to let go of what they’re holding onto? And how would it feel to do so?
By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams
For example, why do women retire with significantly lower Social Security benefits, after a lifetime of gender prejudiced earnings?
By Samuel Alexander, Alex Baumann, Resilience.org
But you might be surprised to find this 1% doesn’t just comprise the super-rich. It may include you, or people you know. And this fact has big implications for social justice and planetary survival.