Invisible force: Why culture will determine humanity’s future
Cultures define what we know about the world, and so what we do in the world. We need to pay them more attention.
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How do we Humans Change Course?
If climate crisis has a silver lining, it may be the power to provoke residents of high-GDP high-emission countries to question the portrayal of their own societies as “developed, ” in the sense of full-grown, perfected, complete.
Sidney Mintz, 1922-2015
Probably the best way for me to honour Sid here is to share some thoughts on why his work still matters to me in the different life I’ve chosen as a small-scale farmer and small-scale farming activist.
The Lessons of Amazonian Commons
The ancient western idea of the commons is a quite simple idea that forms the basis of an economics run by neither the state or market. It’s also an idea that we’ve never needed so urgently.