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Consumerism was an experiment that failed. It led us down a dead end. Only by letting go – or, rather, only by ripping ourselves free – can we transcend it. 
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What made you into an environmentalist? Think back over your life to an event that inspired you with care for some special part of our planet
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"Things have to get worse before they can get better." To scratch this kind of talk is to reveal an old heresy beneath the veneer of common sense.
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“The 21st century, he says, “shows signs of producing shifts in energy capture and social organization that dwarf anything seen since the evolution of modern humans.” If you read only one post-Naomi-Klein climate change essay this year, let it be the one by Margaret Atwood. In this essay, she focuses on how different energy regimes …
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This is my summary: human beings are basically big babies, driven by their desires – me, me, me; want, want, want. The job of a capitalist economy is to meet these desires without questioning them. Capitalism does not, for instance, make any moral distinction between what people want and what people actually need – between, say, PlayStations and penicillin. As far as capitalism is concerned, they all count as the same thing – choice. And capitalism is designed to maximise our choices through a rational triage system called the market. Some people win from this system, some lose. But, mathematically, more people get to realise more of their choices under this system than under any other. But the market has no view as to whether these choices are worthwhile or not. Nor whether they contribute to the common good or the long-term survival of the planet. It just seeks to maximise them.
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“1. Language, information and the virtual space were distinctive features of the previous generation. Craft, matter and the fusion of the digital and the material are defining generation M, the first generation of the 21st century.
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The more aware we become of how nature works, the more clearly we recognize that we are an integral, regenerative part of the planetary system: Gaia.
jean lievens's insight:
BUILDING THE OPEN SOURCE CIRCULAR ECONOMY ETHICAL ECONOMY INTEGRAL THEORY P2P ECOLOGY P2P EPISTEMOLOGY P2P HIERARCHY THEORY P2P SPIRITUALITY P2P SUBJECTIVITYbuil
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As long as grief is not fully experienced, the reality and gravity of climate change won't feel real even if we're intellectually persuaded.
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What we do to any part of nature, so, inescapably, we do to ourselves. The current climate change narrative is but a first step toward that understanding.
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The Independent Practititioners Network is an example of commoning as a form of neoliberal heresy
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The idea of bioocultural rights provides a powerful legal framework for reclaiming land, culture, traditional knowledge and self-governance.
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The country of Jauja is a typical example of the popular utopias of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Modernity. It’s a good reflection of the aspirations of the lower tiers of society, which were crushed by hunger and misery. Abundance, which is the end of work forced by need, free [gratis] food, and the end of conflicts and violence due to its scarcity, conjures up the image of a world we deserve to live in.
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Green Puritanism - or how 'Mine's Greener Than Yours' is just 'Keeping Up With the Joneses, Mark II'.
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