[Luis González Reyes] We are going through an acute energy crisis whose principal cause is not environmental limits but the need and possibility for constant expansion of capitalism on a finite planet. The hyper-technological renewables cannot resolve this energy crisis due to their intrinsic properties distinct from those of fossil fuels, and several technological and
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[Ted Trainer] The conventional conception of development condemns most of the world’s people to exploitation and misery. The single most important step in their liberation is the debunking of this powerful ideological trap.
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Prologue by Jorge Riechmann for the Spanish edition of Ugo Bardi's book Before the Collapse.
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[Ted Trainer] The cultural change is the crucial factor, and prefiguring is the best way to introduce and spread the understandings that a) capitalism must be scrapped and b) the alternative must be mainly local, self-sufficient, self-governing, cooperative and frugal communities.
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Alberto Garzón: "The main virtue of degrowth is to state that the objective is to scale down in an organized, planned manner, compatible with democratic principles and values, and not through a disaster."
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(Originally published at the author’s blog.) I start this post by referring to the IPCC report published past August. There were very important sentences, by which my friend Ferran Puig talks about in his blog. It should be noted here that what was published this past August is only the first part of the total
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Silvia Román reviews the recent report by Joám Evans Pim and Ann Dom which aims to imagine a world free of mining.
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[Antonio Turiel] Why are we going to condemn ourselves to an unsustainable and impossible model that is going to fail, when there may be a viable and much less expensive alternative?
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[Red de Futuros Indígenas] Facing a climate crisis that threatens our future on the planet, that puts our lives and territories at risk, representatives from more than 20 Indigenous peoples are organizing to confront this emergency. A network of narratives of resistance is born. To reforest minds, to indigenize hearts.
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Guillermo Martínez talks to the Spanish de-growth theorist about subjects such as ecofascism, the culture of constant hurry, and the need to respond to climate change with transition to a non-patriarchal and self-managed society.
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Report by Pedro A. Prieto on the feasibility of a 100% decarbonized society based on 100% renewable energy: "we are facing a challenge very likely beyond our means. It is therefore an invitation to give a step forward: to rethink the required change of paradigm and our way of living towards a society eminently less
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Atawallpa Oviedo Freire underscores the profoundly destructive character of both Correist progressivism and right-wing neoliberalism as variant offshoots of essentially the same planet-devouring Western paradigm.
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[Martin Mantxo] In Texas, once again, the neoliberalism that proposes the privatization of public services and resources as the optimal form of management, proves once again to be not only a social, economic and environmental failure, but a great disaster a benefit for a few.
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[Marga Mediavilla] If the dream of the future inside the minds of those who were driving technology in the 80s had been sustainable, today humanity would not be facing climate disaster, the energy crisis and ecosystemic collapse.
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The academic publisher Springer Publishing has recently canceled a contract to publish an important new book, Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala: The Violence, Corruption, and Impunity of Contemporary Predatory Mineral Exploitation, due to threats from “a third party” to sue the publisher. Further details of this incident are related in a
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