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by Jan Lundberg
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05 May 2011 |
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When the Titanic is in view of the giant iceberg, is it the moment to start reforming shipping practices? When Fukushima has blown, is it time to ponder how to better power the industrial economy? Is it not instead imperative in both cases to reverse course or sharply turn away? Clearly, we need to keep our eye on the ball, and keep from being distracted by fear tactics: headlines about Qadhafi, bin Laden and the next boogeyman. |
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by Jan Lundberg
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13 October 2010 |
 Whether we listen to President Obama, Paul Krugman, Robert Samuelson, the Republicans, Tea Party-ers, or liberal progressives, they all want more “jobs,” a “recovery,” and “prosperity.” As long as lust for “growth” prevails, and the approved social critics also ignore the nature of the system and its collapse, then the runaway train of unprecedented chaos and ecosystem destruction is only accelerating.
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by Peter Crabb
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08 June 2010 |
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One of the brilliant insights in Daniel Quinn’s 1992 novel Ishmael is that modern industrialized people do not know how to live. Humans have long been cut off from the contingencies of nature, first as a consequence of discovering the wholly unnatural skill of growing reliable food supplies in one place, and later as a side effect of learning how to manufacture wholly unnatural objects and environments. The resulting alienation from nature and from our ancestors’ nature-adapted ways of life left us clueless and susceptible to being sold ideas about how people should live, usually by the most audacious psychopath in the group. |
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by Robert Jensen
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19 April 2010 |
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After a recent talk on racism and other illegitimate hierarchies at a
diversity conference in Dallas, I received a letter from one of the people
who had attended that asked "why you feel it necessary to perpetuate and
even exacerbate the divisiveness of language when addressing a group of
people assembled to learn how to live better together and be more accepting
of differences?" He suggested that by being so sharply critical, I was part
of the problem not the solution
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by Jan Lundberg
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13 April 2010 |
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Editor's note:
A testimony to the failure of the environmental movement to offer an alternative to ecocide is the continued, widespread support of the automobile industry for "clean cars." This pseudo-environmental stance is almost identical to the Obama administration's myopia about continuing industrial pollution at full tilt for the sake of "jobs" and stability for its friends on Wall Street. However, the state of affairs -- driving off the ecological cliff for maximum petrocollapse -- is also the failure of grassroots activism and the pro-bicycle/pro walking movements.
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by Jan Lundberg
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13 February 2010 |
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In "How to Get Our Democracy Back" Lawrence Lessig wrote in The
Nation, Feb. 3 (and soon after in the San Francisco Chronicle), a
somewhat scathing indictment of Congress and the President.
In my soon to be released book, Petrocollapse: The Basis of Crash and
Culture Change, part of it discusses the political and socioeconomic
system we live under. A section of that part goes into what I call
the Dominant Critique. Those commentators or leaders participating in
it constitute what has come to mean the "Left." |
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