Ecology 2/2

Peter Critchley

Dec 10, 202112 min read

Knowing History, Politics, and Human Beings

Scientist and climate campaigner Michael Mann called upon YouTube to remove what he calls ‘climate denial videos’ from its forum. “Hey...

Peter Critchley

Dec 8, 20215 min read

The Dangers of Environmental Overspill and Appropriation

And then there are the days when you stun the ever-active and loudly vocal eco-warriors into silence. The innocent lambs are suddenly...

Peter Critchley

Nov 30, 202121 min read

The Motivational Economy

The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...

Peter Critchley

Nov 14, 202122 min read

Resisting the Psychocrats

Resisting Psychocrats I’m still on The Green Party’s mailing list, despite letting my membership lapse some time in 2018 or 2019. I left...

Peter Critchley

Nov 11, 202124 min read

Environmentalism as Techno-Bureaucratic Managerialism

Government, Politics, and Ethics This analysis of Yanis Varoufakis, explaining that we have already left not just neoliberalism but...

Peter Critchley

Oct 28, 202127 min read

A little more conversation, a little less action, please

A little more conversation, a little less action, please; All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning anyone. I am reading people trying...

Peter Critchley

Dec 20, 20209 min read

Naturism, Romanticism, and Technocracy

Classless, amoral, and non-political. Such is the self-image of would-be planetary managers, a technocracy that works hand-in-hand with...

Peter Critchley

Aug 17, 201919 min read

Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action

Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...

Peter Critchley

Aug 17, 20129 min read

Ecological Virtue

ECOLOGICAL VIRTUE 2012 Stephen Emmott is head of computational science at Microsoft Research in Cambridge and professor of computational...