By Chloe Kirby|2021-09-24T17:56:28+00:00September 24th, 2021|Featured, Practice|0 Comments
Good news for a change—but bad news, as usual. According to the Associated Press (July 31), there’s a shortage of ammunition all over the United States, as major manufacturers are unable to keep up with high demand. Only the military is unaffected, since the Army supplies its own ammo, for all branches of the armed forces.
By Craig Collins|2021-09-24T17:54:54+00:00June 25th, 2021|Practice|1 Comment
For Deep Green fundamentalists there can be no compromise, no middle ground between Deep and Bright Green. JK&W contend “even with steep reductions in our energy-intensive lifestyle, a return to subsistence living, and the best-known permaculture techniques, a city cannot be made sustainable.” They reason that since “cities have existed for less than 5 percent of our time on this planet…Obviously we don’t need cities.” Reality check! Obviously our foraging ancestors had no use for cities on a sparsely populated, biologically rich planet. But do the authors seriously believe our ecologically damaged and depleted planet can support 7.8 billion post-industrial hunter-gatherers?
By Craig Collins|2021-04-30T20:41:18+00:00April 30th, 2021|Practice|1 Comment
Green survivalists hope humans will wake up to their universal peril, overcome their addiction to fossil fuels, and ditch the ecocidal economy that pursues profit at the expense of people and the planet. To create a sustainable alternative, these “bioneers” are committed to healing humanity’s toxic relationship with the Earth by integrating the wisdom of indigenous cultures with the most useful insights of science and ecology. Unfortunately, ecovillagers are oblivious to, and woefully unprepared for, a looming threat to the future they hope to create. While they hone their abilities to live peacefully with each other and the planet, other survivalists intend to stay alive through plunder and pillage.
By Craig Collins|2021-04-23T20:00:49+00:00March 5th, 2021|Practice|0 Comments
Catabolic capitalism isn't your grandparents' capitalism. Back then, industrial capitalism profited primarily from growth, fueled by abundant fossil energy. But the centuries of cheap energy and an ever-expanding economic pie are over; and so are the rising living standards they generated. Even the recent decades of stagnation, debt-driven bubbles, and government bailouts are reaching their limit. Capitalism's future is becoming catabolic.
By Craig Collins|2020-10-08T16:14:30+00:00May 1st, 2020|Practice|0 Comments
So, was the film "Planet of the Humans" a hit job on the environmental movement disguised by the filmmakers' phony claim to care about Mother Earth? Or was it an honest, get real, exposé of its assertion that, "The takeover of the environmental movement by capitalism is now complete"?
By Craig Collins|2020-04-17T14:59:33+00:00March 27th, 2020|Practice, Theory|1 Comment
By Craig Collins As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall
By Dan Corjescu|2020-02-28T17:30:13+00:00December 13th, 2019|Theory|0 Comments
By: Dan Corjescu Imagine this rather typical SF scenario: alien invaders arrive on Earth. They are vastly superior in intelligence,
By Craig Collins|2019-12-13T15:26:37+00:00November 29th, 2019|Practice|1 Comment
The Galactic Gardeners’ Forum This may not be the best time to contact you, but waiting may only make things
By Craig Collins|2019-10-25T20:48:21+00:00September 26th, 2019|Practice|2 Comments
By Craig Collins In a recent interview (TruthOut, Sept. 17, 2019) with Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein linked Greta Thunberg’s autism
By Craig Collins|2019-04-18T15:04:07+00:00March 27th, 2019|Practice|0 Comments
The overriding weakness in the ESA is that no legal barrier can possibly halt the relentless juggernaut of economic growth at the heart of our extinction crisis.
