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In search of silver linings

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on November 10, 2016 | 8 Comments »

So, Donald Trump will be president of the United States and both Congress and Senate will be dominated by Republicans. Environmentalists and social justice activists, almost universally, find this idea horrifying. But there are silver linings to be found amidst the wreckage. Let’s explore a few of them.

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Living in a bubble

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on April 19, 2016 | 6 Comments »

I’ve been using the metaphor of the Sustainability Bottleneck in my teaching, but another one that is more immediately graspable is The Bubble. Two things landed in my in-box this morning that testify to this (but that’s a pretty daily occurrence, e.g., see this, this, this, this, this, this, and this, all from the past week). One […]

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Global disorder, the left, & a new democracy

Posted in Cultural politics, Manifestos & auguries, Politics, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2015 | 1 Comment »

The following is something I wrote a while back that I have not had a chance to do anything with. I’m sharing it here simply because it will otherwise languish. It is a reflection on the political left and its failings in a changing global situation, a situation marked by inequality on a global scale, by increasing, […]

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4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering

Posted in Anthropocene, Eco-culture, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , , on May 1, 2015 | 8 Comments »

Some 2500 years ago, a man named Siddhartha Gotama articulated what have come to be known as the “4 Noble Truths”: the truth of dukkha, or fundamental suffering (that there is a basic unsatisfactoriness to life), the truth of its causes (that it arises from an ignorance and misperception of the nature of things, which are […]

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Sustainability bottleneck (or, No one here gets out alive?)

Posted in Anthropocene, Manifestos & auguries, tagged , , , , , on January 22, 2015 | 10 Comments »

Astrophysicist and NPR blogger Adam Frank writes about the “sustainability bottleneck” as the state faced by technological civilizations like ours, which have learned how to “intensively harvest” energy, but not how to sustain themselves through the crisis this harvesting sets off. It turns out there may be millions of planets that give rise to life in our galaxy alone. Frank […]

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