ANARCHY, SOCIALITY, AND THE WAY
John Clark
“The way up and the way down are one and the same.” – Heraclitus
“If I knew the Way, I would take you to the Oikos.” – The Grateful Dead (slightly paraphrased)
Ted Trainer’s recent two-part article on …
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The Prosumer Economy: Being Like a Forest
Uygar Özesmi
The contemporary world economy is based on large-scale production, competition, growth, consumption and profit maximization, increasingly the cause of rampant economic inequality all over the world, and extreme disharmony with nature. To reach its objective of selling the …
Ending systems of domination: Reclaiming our bodies and politics from global trauma
Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
As the sun goes down on a system that cannot save us from itself, our only option is to bring that system to an end. But what is that system, and how do we replace …
The many misunderstandings of degrowth: A response to Kelsey Piper’s “Can we save the planet by shrinking the economy?”
Carlos Tornel[i]
“Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”
Kenneth Boulding
In the book The Case for Degrowth, Giorgios Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa …
The path to a just and sustainable society
Ted Trainer
The first part of this article discussed how the consumer capitalist society is so far beyond sustainable levels of production and consumption that the resulting global problems cannot be solved unless there is huge reduction in those levels, …
Eco-socialism vs. Eco-anarchism: Exploring “The Simpler Way”
Ted Trainer
This is the first of two articles outlining “The Simpler Way” perspective on the global predicament and the way out of it. Many analysts now see that consumer-capitalism must be replaced, and most alternative thinking in this context …
Challenging colonization: Building sustainable human and natural communities in Palestine
By Mazin Qumsiyeh
History tells us that every country on earth was subject to colonization and/or had colonized other countries. Post-colonial studies are replete with examples of the kinds of struggles native people have endured in the past, and continue …
Quand vous voudrez…a 1976 poster which envisioned degrowth
Christine Dann
“le seul réalisme c’est de vivre heureux ici et maintenant sans attendre des lendemains qui chantent ou déchantent même si vous ne votez pas” (“the only realistic thing to do is to live happily in the here and …
Water, the driving force of Nature: Emancipation through popular consultation
Alberto Acosta
“The view of nature attained under the domination of private property and money is a real contempt for, and practical debasement of, nature.”
Karl Marx, “On the Jewish Question” (1844)
Water, a slave of capital
When we human …
The rising green tide: Fighting for reproductive justice in Argentina
Introduction by Ana Cecilia Dinerstein followed by an interview with María Alicia Gutiérrez (Leader of the Argentine Campaign for the Legalization of Abortion) by the author (*)
The year 2020 ended on a triumphant note for the feminist movement in …
An economy that works for everyone
Clem McCartney
When the New Zealand Labour Party won the recent general election, the party leader and Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said they must seize the opportunity “to build an economy that works for everyone.” As a slogan it compares …
Migration and the shared planet
Clem McCartney
A butterfly flaps its wings in the African jungle, and a few weeks later a hurricane results in North America. That was the image that chaos theory used in order to show that small changes can have big …