By Asad Rehman, Open Democracy
It will require imagination and political will, it means listening to and being guided by those on the frontlines of extractive projects and climate impacts. Solutions to these crises won’t come in the shape of a battery - they come in the shape of justice, reparations and equity.
By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue
Underlying so much of the economic and ecological turmoil unfolding before us is a slow collision between the operating practices of the resource-wasting, vertically-managed 20th century and the much more crowded, polluted, and dangerous ecological and economic conditions of the 21st century.
By Sarah van Gelder, YES! magazine
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he's standing up to tar sands extraction.
By Lyda Fernanda Forero, Degrowth.de
There is an increasing consensus on the need and urgency to tackle climate change and its consequences.
By Robert M. Christie, The Hopeful Realist
Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group ‘emplaced’ for many generations in a particular location and fully integrated into the ecology of that place?
By Brent Blackwelder, The Daly News
Today’s global economy is causing shortages of natural resources (both renewable and nonrenewable) as we come to the end of what might be called the Age of Extraction.
By Robert Jensen, Alternet
The agricultural revolution produced the first systematic extractive model, which set us on a road to eventual collapse.