By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
The best response to this constellation of emergencies is to actively shrink the technosphere and radically reduce economic growth and energy spending. Our political class can’t imagine such a conversation.
By Dark Mountain Editors, Dark Mountain Project
And the suspicion arises that, behind all these manifestations of extraction, lies the same emotional and metaphysical vacuum – a hole in the heart as long and wide as the Berkeley pit: unappeasable, irrational, and ultimately incapable of ever being filled.
By Chris Rhodes, Energy Balance
We call on all scientists to sign this paper, and act in a united effort to avoid a catastrophic collapse of civilisation.
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
It’s past time to quit the cowboy economics, to hang up the hats and put away the spurs. To salvage both nature and humanity, pretty much everything about how we conduct human society must change. So what are you doing to help? I mean actually doing?
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
A brilliant and searching probe into power in all its forms, this book shows how our species’ pursuit, overuse and abuse of power is plunging us ever deeper into existential crisis.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
We often talk about justice in terms of the harvest. There is a certain poetic fitness in this. The work that goes into creating a harvest, the sowing and cultivating, is balanced by a commensurate reward.
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
I have no comprehensive proposal for how we can get to “fewer and less,” nor does anyone else. The scale and scope of the challenge is unprecedented, and beyond the reach of conventional policy proposals. But we can enhance our chances of success by cultivating restless and relentless minds.
By Brian Tokar, Climate and Capitalism
When the current IPCC report was first released, the UN Secretary General described it as a “code red for humanity,” and called for decisive action.
By Marc Martorell Escofet, Green European Journal
The defence of life, both as a political platform and a political strategy, could pave the way towards eco-hegemony, allowing Greens to provide the radical change we all need.
By Victor M. Toledo, Esperanza Project
The great challenge is not to deny this fear, but to take responsibility and overcome it, avoiding paralysis and nihilistic or cynical attitudes. In other words, converting fear into preventive and effective action, into awareness of all species.
By Peter Somerville, Steady-State Manchester
These are two very different books but with much in common. Both are concerned with how to respond to the climate and ecological emergency. Jonathan Neale’s (JN) focus is on the global level, while that of Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton (L&L-L) is primarily on the UK.