Let’s face facts: Life in such cold climates as the one I live in (it was 8°F/-14°C here this morning) would hardly be possible, for us in such numbers as we are, without fossil fuels. The harnessing of fossil fuel energy has enabled tremendous innovation — innovation that, if managed well, could help us get […]
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Rant for the day
Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged agency, Anthropocene, climate change, climate justice, climate solutions, Ecozoic, fossil fuel era, global justice, good Anthropocene, sustainability transition on December 14, 2017 | 6 Comments »
In search of silver linings
Posted in Academe, Politics, tagged 2016 elections, alt-right, climate justice, Donald Trump, Dugin, future of the university, Garrison Keillor, global environmental catastrophe, liberalism, meme magic, memetic warfare, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, post-cinema, progressivism, Republicans, Tom Frank, Trump on November 10, 2016 | 7 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.
The I=PAT of mass murder, and its antithesis — joy
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged anti-liberalism, Bill Chaloupka, climate justice, Dugin, fundamentalism, global solidarity movement, green left, I=PAT, LGBTQ, liberalism, movement of movements, Naomi Klein, Omar Mateen, Orlando shootings, war and peace on June 15, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Just as I=PAT serves as a handy, if problematic, formula for thinking about the causes of environmental impact, so I think there is a similar formula underlying tragedies like the massacre at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. It goes something like this: Hate + Technology + Distress = Carnage/Chaos
Following the (in)action in Paris, updated
Posted in Politics, tagged 350.org, climate justice, COP21, Paris climate summit, UN climate change conferences on December 15, 2015 | 5 Comments »
This article has been revised since it was first posted. It consists of a list of useful sources providing ongoing coverage of, and initial post-conference reactions to, the COP21 conference and mobilizations in response to it. Please suggest any other helpful sources and links in the “Comments.” (Previously suggested links have been added and the comments removed.) Originally published: Dec. […]
Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?
Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged carbon capitalism, climate change, climate justice, COP21, fossil fuel era, international agreements, Paris climate summit on December 13, 2015 | 5 Comments »
The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]
Climate Justice for dummies
Posted in AnthropoScene, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, carbon capitalism, climate change, climate justice, environmental justice on December 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Here’s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth’s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human & nonhuman species that exists […]
The climate connection
Posted in Politics, tagged climate culture, Climate Games, climate justice, Paris climate summit, terrorism, UN Climate Summit on November 19, 2015 | 1 Comment »
How connected are the recent Paris attacks with the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)? At first glance, the targeting of Paris for ISIS’s act of war on civilian populations would seem to be motivated by other things: France’s role in […]
What’s happening?
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Adbusters, Billion People March, climate change, Climate Games, climate justice, COP 21, Paris climate summit on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris […]
The many ecologies of Laudato Si
Posted in Politics, SpiritMatter, tagged climate change, climate justice, Papal encyclical, Pope Francis, religion and ecology on June 18, 2015 | 9 Comments »
Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home,” is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts’ content. As the most far-reaching statement by the single largest (relatively united) religious denomination on the planet, it is likely to have an immense impact on global conversations around […]
Anthropocene & equity
Posted in AnthropoScene, tagged Anthropocene, climate justice, global equity on June 1, 2015 | 5 Comments »
I’ve reported previously on how critics see the “Anthropocene” concept as overgeneralizing from the causal nuances of actual responsibility for climate (and global system) change. In an excellent summary of recent writing on the topic, ecosocialist climate observer Ian Angus answers the question “Does Anthropocene science blame all humanity?” with a definitive “no.” That doesn’t mean that the term […]
4 Noble Truths of Socio-Ecological Suffering
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, buen vivir, carbon capitalism, climate justice, ecological sacrifice zones, environmental justice, Sydney Tar Ponds 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 […]
How to stop a pipeline
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged climate justice, ecopolitics, indigenous resistance, petropolitics, pipelines, tar sands on November 8, 2014 | 1 Comment »
More information here and here. Not all Wet’suwet’en agree. See here and the video here.
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