Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the End of Capitalism
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning
The global conversation regarding climate change has, for the most part, ignored the elephant in the room.
Tag: environmental crises
Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction
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?
Review: Power by Richard Heinberg
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.
False Harvest
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.
Restless and Relentless Minds: Thinking as a “Species out of Context”
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.
The IPCC Report: Key Findings and Radical Implications
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.
From the Green Wave to Eco-hegemony
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.
Nature, Covid-19 and Species Fear
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.
Fighting Fire with Fire?: Reviews
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.
Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth
By Tim Jackson, The Conversation
Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t seem to worry a new generation of space entrepreneurs intent on colonising the “final frontier” as fast as possible.
This ship is sinking
By Alice Loyd, Resilience.org
If I accept the seriousness of our predicament the question becomes, to use a familiar phrase, “How then shall we live?” What can people who care about life on Earth do to help at this point?
Breaking Boundaries (documentary film review)
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Breaking Boundaries is a well-intentioned but bungled documentary about the ecological destruction currently being wrought by industrial humanity.