America’s Story
Politics in the United States subsists on a single myth whose narrative is central to all positions, even most of the ones located at the fringe.
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Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma’am?
Every human society without exception gives some members more say in making decisions than others.
Exit from the Megamachine
Opening a newspaper or listening to the radio news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts, failing states, terrorist attacks, and financial crashes.
Limits to Growth: Policies to Steer the Economy away from Disaster
The existing economy is already environmentally unsustainable. It is utterly implausible to think we can “decouple” economic growth from environmental impact so significantly, especially since recent decades of extraordinary technological advancement have only increased our impacts on the planet, not reduced them.
The World’s Forest Will Collapse if we Don’t Learn to Say No
An alarming new study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly, but that areas of “core forest”…are vanishing even faster.
Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?
A few months from now, this blog will complete its tenth year of more-or-less-weekly publication. In words the Grateful Dead made famous, it’s been a long strange trip…
What Geological, Economic, or Policy Forces Might Limit Fossil Fuel Production?
Is Peak Oil Dead and What Does It Mean for Climate Change?
The Flutter of Space Bat Wings
You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think.
Collaboration and Changing Beliefs are Two Keys for a Degrowth Economy
Today when we think about a degrowth economy, about fostering the transition towards it and supporting more resilient lifestyles, I imagine – departing from systems theory – that we need something deeper; some kind of economic acupuncture that can trigger specific points that reverberate throughout the whole economic system.
Living in the Anthropocene – a Frame for New Activism
We have emerged from the geological epoch of the Holocene into a new epoch designated as the Anthropocene.
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent
Our high priests now take the peculiar form of neoclassical economists, bankers, and national treasurers.
The Patience of the Sea
America just now, after all, has more than a little in common with an October day in Ocean City.