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"Western industries have deliberately offshored the production of rare metals and its associated pollution, only to bring these metals back onshore once cleansed of all impurities to incorporate them into intangible ‘green’ technologies [creating a] division of labour, between those who sacrifice their health and environment to supply components and ...Read More
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“Anything that offers success in our unjust society without trying to change it is not revolutionary – it just helps people cope. In fact, it could also be making things worse. Instead of encouraging radical action, mindfulness says the causes of suffering are disproportionately inside us, not in the political ...Read More
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Empire of Meat | Alicia Kennedy
Ajay Singh Chaudhary • thebaffler.com ↗︎
A look at the interplay between beef and colonialism in America:
‘"Cattle ranchers and bison hunters, supported by the U.S. military, fundamentally reshaped the Great Plains, expelling American Indians from western lands and appropriating that land for use by white settlers and ranchers.” Without this process of extermination and colonization, he says, beef’s emergence as a staple of the American diet ...Read More
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"At the country level, among developed countries, there is no relationship between energy use and development. Further, for all countries with normal economies, the less energy-intensive is a country’s economy, the happier are its people."
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"As climate impacts continue to ramp up, there’s no reason to believe an international focus on it will automatically lend itself either to progressive or even small-d democratic politics. In addition to those young people drifting right, weak showings for the left across Europe (the left GUE/NGL coalition dipped to ...Read More
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“Such lifestyles may appear marginally efficient, but they are, by and large, a convenient by-product of shifting social and ecological costs to those less privileged both locally and globally.” #altwoke #climate #environment #vegan
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Very frequently [Left Ecomodernists] imagine a totally post-work world, creating the conditions for a new utopia: Fully Automated Luxury Communism…Geographer Matt Huber, for example, claims that… "Capitalism has produced the first society where the vast majority need not work in agriculture. A reversal of this is not politically possible or
Author: Max Ajl holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University and works on the Tunisian national liberation movement and post-colonial development in the Arab world. twitter.com/ajl_max ...Read More
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"Can we feed the world without destroying it? New research reveals 22 steps to a sustainable food future."
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"Incorporating the colored dissolved organic matter responsible for the color change improves the accuracy of climate models"
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"After a few months of swirling discourse, we can begin to identify an emergent set of positions in the debate around the Green New Deal. The right-wing has resorted to classic red-baiting…The vanishing center is clinging tightly to its cozy attachment to a politics of triangulation… But on the left,
"The opposite of pessimism isn’t self-assured optimism, but rather militant commitment to collective action in the face of uncertainty and danger. We might take our cue from social movements that adopt a stance of critical support, embracing the political opening afforded by the Green New Deal while at the same ...Read More
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"An uncontrolled collapse of this civilization would be catastrophic, leading to mega-deaths, along with the greatest suffering ever experienced in human history. I don’t view that lightly, and nobody should"
There is an alternative and it already exists:
“Some of us call this an Ecological Civilization. Jem disparages this vision as a “fairytale.” In fact, as I detail elsewhere, innumerable pioneering organizations around the world are already planting the seeds for this cultural metamorphosis. From buen vivir in South America, to Mondragon in Spain, to the Earth Charter ...Read More
Before getting into this climate story it would be valuable to remember that the presence of humans on earth compared to its total timeline/existence is minuscule. The anthropocene timeline is so present, as it should be, seen through the lens of mere generations, decades, years. The panic is understandable but
" I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier, Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce, Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. ...Read More