By Brian Lloyd, Resilience.org
Now that we have glimpsed for the first time a planet-wide threat to all that lives and breathes, we might acknowledge at long last that we have been poorly served by a mode of understanding that must turn everything into the same kind of lock - the same mechanism - before it can proceed.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
There are no easy answers to the dilemmas of creating just and renewable post-capitalist societies.
By Herman Daly, The Great Transition
Ecosocialism aspires to be egalitarian and ecologically sustainable. But nothing is said in this essay about proper limits to the range of inequality in the distribution of income and wealth.
By Ashish Kothari, The Hindu
And so we must turn for hope to the many movements of sangharsh (resistance) and nirman (construction) throughout the world. These movements realise that the injustices they are facing, and the choices they must make, are not bound by the divides that ideologues play games with.
By Mariah Brennan Clegg, Climate Justice Project
To be sure, ecological calamity will not permit an organized, equitable, and civilized global community. Marxist Humanists and others would like to add, “it doesn’t come from one, either.”
By Jerome Roos, ROAR Magazine
In these tumultuous times, after all, the left urgently needs its brightest and most creative minds to focus on the intractable puzzle that now confronts it: the question of how to break up the vicious cycle of endless compound growth and bring an end to the institutionalized madness of economic reason before it lays waste to all human civilization.
By John Bellamy Foster, The Great Transition
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
By John Bellamy Foster, MRzine
China's environmental problems are massive and growing, but the Chinese leadership has made significant steps toward a more sustainable development. This emphasis has emerged out of a broad socialist perspective, influenced by both Marxian analysis and China's own distinct history, culture, and vernacular.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
Over the nearly eight years that I’ve been posting these weekly essays on the shape of the deindustrial future, I’ve found that certain questions come up as reliably as daffodils in April or airport food on a rough flight.
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
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