What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
By Vicki Robin, Seth Godin, Resilience.org
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
Tag: environmental activism
Poison for the people — How an exiled activist is countering Russia’s propaganda machine
By Adam Federman, Waging Nonviolence
Because if you stop buying oil, gas and coal from Putin’s Russia it will help you to stop war on Ukraine on the one hand and it will help you to save the climate on the other.
The Uncertain Activist: more thoughts on uncertainty
By David Lambert, Resilience.org
I have taken to heart the insight that possibly, the way we respond to the crisis is part of the crisis; that we see this thing we call ‘the climate’ through a window whose frame is itself the product of our toxic culture.
Guatemalan Water Defenders Celebrate 10 Years of Resistance
By Jen Moore, Inequality.org
With national and international laws designed to privilege such harmful activities in the name of so-called development and progress, it is vital to celebrate the milestones of people fighting against all odds to protect their lives and lands from such threats.
Some thoughts on strategy, and climate change, and feeling like you’re not trying your hardest…
By Sam J. Knights, Medium.com
“What can I do?”, “How hard should I try?”, “Why aren’t we all on the streets, night after night, fighting for change?”… Perhaps, all we can say at the end of it all is that asking these questions is an important part of the process. A sign that you’re still fighting, still human. You have not given up.
City Repair
By Morag Gamble, Mark Lakeman, Sense-making in a changing world
Start with wherever they're able to get to start to say yes. And then you get to the next yes. And the next yes. Until the process begins.
‘Chile Has Entirely Privatised Water, Which Means that Theft is Institutionalised’
By CIVICUS Staff, CIVICUS
Water is in the hands of large producers who have dried out our territory and compromised the lives of our communities. Ours is an extreme case: Chile has entirely privatised water, which means that theft is institutionalised. Chile has clearly prioritised extractive industries over the rights of communities to water.
The Bizarre Blindspot in “Planet of the Humans”
By Craig Collins, Resilience.org
So, was the film "Planet of the Humans" a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers' phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, "The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete"?
If Defending Life on Earth is Extremist, We must Own that Label
By George Monbiot, The Guardian blog
Police say climate groups such as Extinction Rebellion are a ‘threat’. They’d have done the same for the suffragettes and Martin Luther King It’s not an “error” or an “accident”, as the police now claim. It’s a pattern.
Has Extinction Rebellion Got the Right Tactics
By Chay Harwood, Marc Hudson, New Internationalist
All agree we need to take action for climate change, but some environmentalists find the Extinction Rebellion’s tactics difficult to get behind. Environmental campaigners Chay Harwood and Marc Hudson provide the arguments for and against them.
No Disaster is Natural
By Jason von Meding, Djair Sergio de Freitas Junior, Maíra Irigaray, openDemocracy
The latest environmental and human catastrophe involving Brazilian mining giant Vale occurred on the 25th January 2019 when a mine-tailings dam in Minas Gerais state ruptured. Mining waste and sludge engulfed the town of Brumadinho, with over a hundred people confirmed dead and more than 200 missing.
Connecting to Nature is a Matter of Environmental Justice
By Nicki Carter, Open Democracy
Environmental activism is meaningless if it does not grapple with issues of injustice and expose the links between environmental devastation, colonial history, and the exploitative relationships of the North and the South. But does this mean that campaigns focused on our connections to the natural world and the suffering of non-human animals are irrelevant?