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Tag: industrial civilization

  • The Only Commonality is Uncommonality: Progressive Protest from Below since the Mid-1980s

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    kimscipes

    Noting the extensive number of progrssive protests, mobilizations, and social disruptions from below since the mid-1980s, not just in the US but around the world, this article suggests that what is going on is the expansion of the global economic and social justice movement, a bottom-up form of globalization.  It suggests that this is, ultimately,…

  • An Open Letter to Climate Activists in the Northwoods…and Beyond

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    fitzdon

    … averting climate change is not going stop the global collapse of the planet as we know it.  Don’t get me wrong.  Climate change is a global emergency and will cause tremendous damage, and, in fact, already has for many. But the thing is, massive, global-scale destruction has been going on for a long time…

  • The Fallacy of Endless Economic Growth

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    fitzdon

    The idea that economic growth can continue forever on a finite planet is the unifying faith of industrial civilization. That it is nonsensical in the extreme, a deluded fantasy, doesn't appear to bother us. We hear the holy truth in the decrees of elected officials, in the laments of economists about flagging GDP, in the…