Innovating scientists and economic policy makers committed to maximizing profit margins promise that we can stop global warming with great inventions coupled with a free market to sell them. The electric vehicle (EV) is one such great invention. But is it really that simple?
Resistance to corporate rule at the policy level will need to be coupled with the generation of alternatives, to fill the gaps left by the departing old system.
We need to address the failures of capitalism and its ineffective reforms head-on by creating decentralized and cooperative local economies, emphasizing local production with local resources, to meet local needs, and to build local wealth.
Certainly, global warming will negatively effect certain resources and thus reduce economic growth—but, ironically, few economists will admit that degrowth may be the only solution to solve climate change.
Local food systems provide a truly sustainable alternative to unwieldy and environmentally damaging global food chains.
“The Corona Chronicles” by Ralph Thurm is a must-read for all those that want to move to wiser action, beyond empty sustainability promises, fatalism or the illusion of progress.
Via Campesina, a movement representing millions of people across the globe, has released a powerful manifesto highlighting the destructive role of imperialism.
E F Schumacher’s groundbreaking work may have spurned the sustainability movement. But green capitalism is still taking us closer to planetary breakdown.
Johan Rockstrom’s work is making a splash in the climate narrative. But is changing our habits enough to divert the course we are on? Or are there more powerful culprits to blame?
What does fermentation have to do with systems change? More than you’d think, according to author and fermentation enthusiast, Sandor Katz.
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