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Getting more serious about food system breakdown
Some people speculate that eco-totalitarians will successfully force us to eat bugs and goo, whereas others oddly claim that anyone defending farmers is a far right extremist, obstructing the technological salvation of humanity and life on Earth. We need a more serious dialogue than that to inform action. … Continue reading Getting more serious about… Read more
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A politics of collapse?
This is the editorial of the May 2023 DA Quarterly “This is a prophetic book,” remarked Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College, about my new book: Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse. Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Clare Farrell, said “if you want to save some of the world, but hate being told what to… Read more
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It’s time for a Great Reclamation in the face of collapse
A free audio recording of the Introduction to ‘Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse’ is now available. It is an extensive introduction in which I seek to encapsulate the full argument of the book, albeit without the detail in the following chapters.… Continue reading It’s time for a Great Reclamation in the face of collapse… Read more
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4 better or 4 worse? As XR nears its ‘big one’
Four years ago I stood by the pink boat of truth in Oxford Circus to give the opening speech at the international rebellion against governmental crimes against humanity for inaction on the ecological and climate crises. The video of the full speech: Four years on, many of the activists who have been involved in XR… Read more
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I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable…
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable… because when I was concluding that, it had already begun. That is the conclusion from 2 years of interdisciplinary analysis. An audio version of chapter 1 on the socio-economic data supporting that view is now freely available.… Continue reading I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable…… Read more
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Atlas Mugged
What might the Greek Myth of Atlas help us to understand about our current global predicament? What is the meaning of the Kintsugi Atlas on the cover of my book ‘Breaking Together’? I share an excerpt from the book here…… Continue reading Atlas Mugged → Read more
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