Planet Farm
By Rob Wallace, New Internationalist
As industrial agriculture encroaches into the last wild places of the Earth, it’s unleashing dangerous pathogens. Time to heal the metabolic rift between ecology and economy
Tag: pandemics
Can the city cycling boom survive the end of the Covid-19 pandemic?
By Hélène Duranton, Philip Adkins, The Conversation
Three leading cities – London, Paris and New York – have all seized on the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to make improvements to their cycling infrastructure to improve mobility, reduce congestion and cut pollution. While these cities are distinct, how do their cycling infrastructures compare?
The coronavirus scoreboard: The illusion of understanding and control
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
We are (quite understandably) so focused on the current pandemic that we fail to comprehend that the coronavirus was introduced into a specific social, political and economic context. When we clamor for a vaccine and nothing else, we change nothing that might mitigate the effects and spread of the next novel virus.
Pandemic Armchair Philosophy Blog 04-15-2020
By Bill Vitek, Resilience.org
What better time to step back and consider alternatives, to review those hidden assumptions about success, happiness and work-life balance, and to do some of the deep thinking that philosophy is famously known and occasionally ridiculed[2] for?
Ben Bernanke: Contrary Indicator
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Whether the world returns to some semblance of normal by summer or whether the horror of COVID-19 continues into the fall and winter, the problem is that confidence has already been shattered.
Covid-19 sucks but it could teach us how to avoid the worst consequences of climate change
By Elizabeth Sawin, Resilience.org
Four things we can learn from the response to COVID-19 that are critical for climate change resilience.
Coronavirus: the Need for a Progressive Internationalist Response
By TNI Staff, Transnational Institute
This pandemic health crisis exposes the injustices of the global economic order. It must be a turning point towards creating the systems, structures and policies that can always protect those who are marginalised and allow everyone to live with dignity.
Overreacting to coronavirus? The perverse logic of panic during a potential pandemic
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Problems which start out small, but have the potential to create systemic ruin, MUST be solved when they are small. Waiting to see if such problems become large is courting the very systemic ruin we seek to avoid.
Pandemic Lessons for the Climate Emergency
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Pandemics change business-as-usual overnight. Governments mobilise huge resources to tackle the problem and compensate for its impacts. At the same time, people depend on the civil and public domains for advice, protection, health services and the whole infrastructure of response.
Mental Health, Isolation and Lockdowns
By Brian Davey, Feasta
This is a lot clearer in a collective crisis like this one than if it were happening to one person but the essential issues are the same. There is the need for a new “package” of life routines and elements that is sustainable before mental and emotional turmoil will stabilise.
Spectacularly wrong: Why Wall Street doesn’t understand the corona virus
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Large-scale and dramatic rearrangements of our current system worldwide and in the United States are likely to come in the wake of the season of death that is upon us—and in the wake of the economic carnage that results from the breakdown of a system so vulnerable that a tiny virus could topple it at its base.
A modest proposal
By Miguel Brieva, 15/15\15
An ecosocial modest proposal by cartoonist Miguel Brieva from the coronavirus pandemic. How about if we take advantage of such a complex and extraordinary situation to draw some valuable conclusions?