The Climate Activism I Support
The Climate Activism I Support I have published extensive criticisms of climate campaigning and of environmentalist politics over the...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 7, 202228 min read
Excommunication
Excommunication from the Ecomentalist Cult I was commenting on a green "friends’" post when I found that my comments had been removed, as...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 30, 202119 min read
Don't Wake Up
Don’t Wake Up I’ve been hearing people say “wake up” for too many years now. If that kind of ‘appeal’ didn’t work way back when, then the...
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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...
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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...
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Peter Critchley
May 2, 20217 min read
The Corruption of Science, Politics, and Ethics
How science has been corrupted The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise Matthew Crawford This recently...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202025 min read
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202014 min read
Taking Practical Reason Seriously
Taking Practical Reason Seriously I would like to comment on this conversation with Danny Cullenward and David Victor, authors of a new...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20205 min read
Climate Rebellion - Going Beyond the Default Options
Ten years ago, in Of Gods and Gaia, I analysed various proposals for planetary management and engineering to deal with the looming...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 21, 202050 min read
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics
Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 15, 202022 min read
The Ecology of Hope
The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 14, 202010 min read
The Return of Materialist Dialectics
My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 3, 20199 min read
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good
Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good I found this ‘Open Letter to Greta Thunberg’ on a site subtitled ‘A rational take on...
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Peter Critchley
Oct 4, 201913 min read
The Price of Political Deficiency
Anonymous Message to Greta Thunberg And so the penny slowly drops, so slowly as to be too late, the masses have been mobilized by their...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 201938 min read
Dangers and Wrong Paths
Dangers and Wrong Paths “What a variety of dangers surrounds us! What a number of wrong paths present themselves in the investigation of...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 2019118 min read
Coercive Environmental Collectivism advancing the Corporate Form
Why we need heroes like Greta Thunberg There is an ugly campaign underway to discredit Greta Thunberg. That campaign is based on fear of...
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Peter Critchley
May 21, 20198 min read
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason Bridging the gap between theoretical reason and practical reason. We scientists don't know how...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 18, 201983 min read
Nothing Worldly Lasts Forever - Thoughts on Notre Dame
Nothing Lasts Forever The Case for Something Against Nothing Notre Dame “Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever...
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Peter Critchley
Mar 24, 20196 min read
Posts and Links
Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical...
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Peter Critchley
Dec 7, 201730 min read
Let us not speak of them, look and pass by
Day after day I wade through the self-perpetuating, self-consuming cycles of climate despair on Facebook. I try my best to ignore it,...
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