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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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A Nonviolent Strategy to End the Climate Catastrophe
By Robert J. Burrowes As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see ‘The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently‘– … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Environment, Philosophy, society, Sociology, war
Tagged civilization, Climate Change, corporatocracy, Dystopia, environment, environmental catastrophe, Extinction, Flame Tree Project, Gandhi, Geocide, Human Population, Mass Extinction, Nonviolent Resistance, war
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Mother Earth May Have Good Reason to Slaughter Us
By Jack Balkwill Source: Dissident Voice Decades ago James Lovelock constructed a principle called the Gaia hypothesis, contending that a biosphere teeming with life works together with inorganic matter to self-regulate conditions for maintaining a livable planet. The oxygen levels … Continue reading
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Tagged Biosphere, Capaitalism, Earth, Economics, environment, Gaia, Human Population, intelligence, James Lovelock, Symbiosis
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