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Note: The Separation of Spirituality and Civility (We are on our own)

The damage people do the ecosystem cannot be corrected with prayer. It does not matter what god one prays to. It does not matter how important the cause that led to the contribution to climate change. No prayer can be so sophisticated to undo such damages. There is no perfection of mysticism that will correct …

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Short Note: John Bellamy Foster thinks mass murder is acceptable

Ecosocialism does not include mass murder, but it seems, John Bellamy Foster did not get the memo. Here he is quoting Lenin with reverence: In applying a historical materialist critique to the process of the destruction of reason, Lukács, periodised the growth of irrationalism in terms of the imperialist or monopoly stage of capitalism. Lenin …

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Memo: “Degrowth needs more strategic planning.” – Dr. Federico Savini

From “Degrowth, legitimacy, and the foundational economy,” a Response to Yvonne Rydin common published in Planning Theory (2024) If we accept the scientific evidence that decoupling is not occurring at the speed and scale required to meet critical climate and ecological targets, then we need to talk about lowering the amount of production and consumption. …

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Memo: Ecology, Ontology and the New School (Updated)

The way I seem to think of it, ecology has a lot in common with ontology. If only we had an Emmanuel Levinas of ecology out there writing book after book today. Maybe there is and I just don’t know. And yes, I have several of John Bellamy Foster’s books. And no, I would not …

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From Morality-Tale Science Fiction to Fantasy-Infused Settler Colonialism

In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “Strange New World,” (2001) T’Pol attempts to caution Captain Archer and his crew about visiting the uninhabited planet they discover. She wants to take a number of days, just over a week, to complete scans from orbit and with probes. The lone Vulcan on the ship, T’Pol, will later …

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The Personal is Political, Even in Simple Matters, with Degrowth

A few months back I was criticized in a degrowth focused email list for discussing the need for communities to learn how to make care products, soap, shampoo, etc, which are life necessities. I was essentially told that had nothing to do with degrowth, most ardently. With degrowth the personal is indeed political. Communities need …

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Note: Righteous Nation Ideology in Science Fiction and Climate Justice Today

John F. Sitton’s criticism in “Hannah Arendt’s Argument for Council Democracy” (Polity, 1987 – link) and Odd Arne Westad’s outline of the Korea’s Neo-Confucian ‘Righteous Nation’ ideology (Empire and Righteous Nation, 2021) perfectly shows what we know about the intended goals of the Abrahamic god, and the limitations of that god’s promises. This is essentially …

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Kamala Harris Denied Reparations for Forced Sterilization Victims in California

When I was in grad school at Johns Hopkins I took a class on families in the United States from a cross-cultural perspective. Kamala Harris’s name came up during our studies on California’s history of state-sanctioned forced sterilization. There is a great deal written on the subject, which you can find with little effort. California’s …

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Flamm et al. on De-orbiting and the Environment and Arnaud on Degrowth and Low Earth Orbit

I recently read Flamm et al.’s paper, “Space sustainability through atmosphere pollution? De-orbiting atmosphere-blindness and planetary environmental justice” (The Anthropocene Review, 2024). There are some important points worth highlighting. I have been monitoring regional and localized light pollution ordinances and some legislation for a while. What I can say is that light pollution is a …

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Reposting short note: Critical Thinking as Liberation Tool, Not Capitalist Maneuvering

From what I have been reading the last few months, here and there, capitalists are trying to modify critical thinking as a “soft skill” to navigate the global economy. Not to prioritize critical thinking as a primary skill to see through capitalism and understand the world as it really is. They will probably win in …

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