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Peter Critchley

Apr 20, 20226 min read

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

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

Dec 9, 202014 min read

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 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...

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...

Peter Critchley

Sep 26, 201947 min read

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 23, 2019140 min read

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...