The Climate Activism I Support I have published extensive criticisms of climate campaigning and of environmentalist politics over the...

Excommunication from the Ecomentalist Cult I was commenting on a green "friends’" post when I found that my comments had been removed, as...

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...

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

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

How science has been corrupted The pandemic has revealed a darkly authoritarian side to expertise Matthew Crawford This recently...

How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...

Taking Practical Reason Seriously I would like to comment on this conversation with Danny Cullenward and David Victor, authors of a new...

Ten years ago, in Of Gods and Gaia, I analysed various proposals for planetary management and engineering to deal with the looming...

Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...

The End of Civilisation or the End of the Capital System Affirming a Democratic Ecology against the Ecology of Fear The overwhelming...

My review of John Bellamy Foster's The Return of Nature is generating some interest. With a substantial second part on Engels, this book...

Class, Capital, Climate Change, and the Common Good I found this ‘Open Letter to Greta Thunberg’ on a site subtitled ‘A rational take on...

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...

Dangers and Wrong Paths “What a variety of dangers surrounds us! What a number of wrong paths present themselves in the investigation of...

Why we need heroes like Greta Thunberg There is an ugly campaign underway to discredit Greta Thunberg. That campaign is based on fear of...

Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason Bridging the gap between theoretical reason and practical reason. We scientists don't know how...

Nothing Lasts Forever The Case for Something Against Nothing Notre Dame “Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever...

Being and Place Posts Neither "yes" nor "no" - against sophism in politics Living in the Sociopathological World Elvis as a Musical...

Day after day I wade through the self-perpetuating, self-consuming cycles of climate despair on Facebook. I try my best to ignore it,...