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The Global Climate Movement is Failing: Why?
By Robert J. Burrowes It has been satisfying to note the significant response to two recent climate campaigns: the actions, including the recent Global Climate Strike, initiated by school students inspired by Greta Thunberg and the climate actions organized by … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Environment, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Biosphere, climate catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Movement, Consumerism, Consumption, Economics, Education, elites, environment, Environmental Disaster, Global Climate Strike, Global Elite, Human Extinction, Nonviolence, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocracy, psychology, Socialization, Sociology, Violence
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Conflict Theory and Biosphere Annihilation
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out that existing conflict theory pays little attention to the extinction-causing conflict being ongoingly generated by human over-consumption in the finite planetary biosphere (and, … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Energy, Environment, Inequality, Militarization, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Billionaires, Biosphere, capitalism, civilization, Climate Change, Conflict, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporations, Economics, elites, environment, Extinction, Governments, greed, materialism, Military, over-consumption, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology
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There is something extraordinary happening in the world
By Gustavo Tanaka Source: Medium A few months ago, I freed myself from society, I’ve released myself from attachments I had and fear that locked me to the system. And since then, I started seeing the world from a different … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, corporate news, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Health, Labor, media, Revolution, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Work
Tagged Collaboration, Consicousness, Consumption, corporate media, Corporations, Employment, Entrepreneurship, environment, Internet, Labor, media, Organic, School, spirituality, Startups, Unschooling, Work
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