Review: Dark Peak by George R. Fehling
George R. Fehling’s novel Dark Peak is both an effective thriller and a heartfelt eco-polemic.
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Why I’m Not Devastated
So what if, to the extent we live in a place where we can, we turn disappointment and bitterness into deep, perhaps sad, reflection?
Adultum – A Critical Narrative at the End of Growth and a Name for the Coming Age
Degrowth is usually translated into German as “Postwachstum” (post growth) or “Wachstumsrücknahme” (reversing growth), but it can also be translated as “ausgewachsen” (grown up).
The Fallacy of Economic Growth
Political elites, both on the Right and on the Left, seem to agree on the necessity of constant economic growth, even at the cost of ecological catastrophe. They say we need growth in order to deal with present social problems, but can it be that this narrative is a fallacy?
Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom
As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, “What will tomorrow bring?”
Naomi Klein & the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Energy Depletion Dismissal is Just as Bad as Climate Change Denial (part 1/3)
Climate change denial is often decried for its destructiveness. But energy depletion dismissal – and by Naomi Klein of all people – could have consequences just as bad.
Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal
With characteristic insight, the great American philosopher, John Dewey, once wrote: ‘Every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself.’
Can a “Green Growth” Strategy Solve Climate Change?
Faith in decoupling deflects attention away from the problems that lie at the heart of global environmental (and social) problems…
Competing Skyscrapers
As economic growth threatens climate stability, biodiversity, planetary geochemical flows, and ecosystem health, humanity is creating a bottleneck for itself.
“You Can’t Handle the Truth!”
At this point most people appear to know that something is terribly, terribly wrong in the United States of America.
Overly Simple Energy-Economy Models give Misleading Answers
Does it make a difference if our models of energy and the economy are overly simple?
What is the World? Who are We? What Are We Going to Do about It?
Speaking of Creation encourages humility, reminding us of humans’ relatively small, albeit disproportionately destructive, place in that larger world.
