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Inner Growth as against External Force
I shall begin with this quote from Lewis Mumford in 1964 “I would not belittle, still less deny, the many admirable products this...
Peter Critchley
Apr 20, 20226 min read
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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 10, 202112 min read
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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
Dec 8, 20215 min read
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Exposing the 'non-political' politics of the 'classless' class
In a tweet of 30th September, Greta Thunberg wrote this: “Ending fossil capitalism doesn't mean we have to implement socialism. We're...
Peter Critchley
Dec 9, 202014 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Dec 1, 20205 min read
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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...
Peter Critchley
Oct 4, 201913 min read
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Extinction Pacification
Pacification : Putting Politics on Ice as the Earth Heats Up This was an argument put forward by a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion:...
Peter Critchley
Sep 26, 201947 min read
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Seeing through the encroachment of the Environmental Megamachine
When Saving the Planet is merely Saving the Capital System Or, When system-change is appropriated and perverted to serve the end of...
Peter Critchley
Sep 23, 2019140 min read
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