The Age of (Moral) Ecology
The Age of (Moral) Ecology We could, if our efforts to address the crisis in the climate system succeed, be entering into the age of...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 201512 min read
Should we be Optimistic?
Why We Should Be Optimistic About the Future Positive thinking isn’t naive, it’s the best way to get things done...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 20157 min read
The Survival of the Most Loving
THE SURVIVAL OF THE MOST LOVING Why we fight for the living world: it's about love, and it's time we said so. George Monbiot...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 201513 min read
Aristotle and the Reenchantment of Nature
ARISTOTLE AND THE REECHANTMENT OF NATURE The magical woods where Aristotle lived with nymphs http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/20...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 25, 20152 min read
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth. Heaven knows we need it. There was a nice message at midnight mass last night. (St Mary's Lowe House, St Helens, UK)....
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20152 min read
Paris Climate Talks doomed to failure
Why the Paris climate talks are doomed to failure, like all the others 'Even if the world celebrates a Paris climate deal on December 11,...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 201517 min read
Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place
Robinson Jeffers and the Poetry of Place The environmental crisis we face is an existential crisis that requires much more than...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 9, 201522 min read
THE POETRY OF EARTH
THE POETRY OF EARTH On the Grasshopper and Cricket By John Keats The Poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 27, 20158 min read
Study War No More
STUDY WAR NO MORE Scientist Carl Sagan calculated that the Cold War had cost some $10 trillion over 40 years. Noel Brown takes up the...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 20, 201516 min read
The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action
The Rational Universe, Creative Human Agency and the Logic of Collective Action I see the world as 'rational' but not in some timeless...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 10, 20155 min read
BALANCE
I'm reading that the climate crisis is so bad, and governmental response the world over has been so poor, for so long, that we may have...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 28, 201529 min read
Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 16, 201531 min read
Communalism and Democratic Confederalism - Reflections on Murray Bookchin
The Communalism and Democratic Confederalism of Murray Bookchin "The belief that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 12, 201519 min read
Moral Concern and Earthcare
Moral Concern and Earthcare How Can We Make People Care About Climate Change? Norwegian psychologist Per Espen Stoknes has studied why so...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 6, 20154 min read
Amory Lovins and Natural Capitalism
A comment on Amory Lovins. I have friends who very much advocate the approach of Amory Lovins, emphasising that such an approach has the...
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Peter Critchley
May 26, 201535 min read
Being in Touch with Life
Being in Touch with Life Montaigne and the question of how to live ‘Read Montaigne … He will calm you … You will love him, you will see’...
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Peter Critchley
May 25, 20159 min read
A Call to Virtue
A Call to Virtue A Call to Virtue May 18, 2015 Issue Jeffrey D. Sachs Living the Gospel in the land of liberty...
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Peter Critchley
May 22, 20157 min read
Eurovision Song Contest Top Twenty
Guide to Eurovision OK, some light relief. At risk of losing any number of friends of good taste and reasonable intelligence, I have to...
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Peter Critchley
May 19, 201514 min read
Unchaining the World
UNCHAINING THE WORLD We are facing some hard truths and hard realities as the crisis in the climate system starts to bite. Below are a...
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Peter Critchley
May 16, 201559 min read
What Place Value in a World of Fact?
WHAT PLACE VALUE IN A WORLD OF FACT? LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FACT-VALUE DUALISM “Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.”...
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