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Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2025:3, Reviews

Abundance gets it wrong

Klein and Thompson’s Abundance sounds progressive but delivers repackaged trickle-down economics, blaming NIMBYs while ignoring corporate power and capitalist inequality. Their technocratic utopia misreads deregulation as justice, with wealth for the rich disguised as abundance for all. [...]

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, 2 weeks ago


Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2024:1, Reviews, Theory

Renewable energy: Are optimistic scenarios feasible?

Terry Leahy critically examines Mark Diesendorf and Rod Taylor's The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation, focusing on their arguments for a renewable energy transition and degrowth. Acknowledging the authors' optimism about renewables, Leahy challenges notions of an easy green transition, to argue that radical degrowth is necessary. [...]

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by , 1 year ago


Culture, Democracy, Economy, Environment, Featured, Green Agenda 2023:2 - On Living Democracy, Reviews, Social Justice, Theory

Like futurology

There’s something about Tim Hollo’s Living Democracy: An ecological manifesto for the end of the world as we know it, that feels like that, like futurology. So I want to talk about the end of the world and liberation amid its end and about the kind of ecological politics that may help us get us past it. All this is... Read More

, 2 years ago