Escaping the Tragic Dialectics of Progress
Human beings are healthier, wealthier, longer-lived and better educated than at any time in history, and in greater numbers. We may...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 6, 202249 min read
An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings
An Integral Ecology - Ecological Writings I will begin with a message sent to me by process philosopher Arran Gare: Dear Peter Critchley,...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 1, 20225 min read
Grave New World
Aldous Huxley issued this statement as a warning; the technocrats amongst us take it as a programme to be enacted. This is what one wrote...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 23, 202246 min read
Technocracy is not Socialism
Technocracy is not Socialism It’s soul-destroying for me to record that this meme has received 15 thousand likes on FB. I have explained...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 8, 20222 min read
When Truths are Lies
It is well-nigh certain that when someone refuses to answer a question and ducks a challenge that that person is peddling a lie and...
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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...
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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...
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Peter Critchley
Apr 9, 20215 min read
To be God's partners in Creation
“Rovelli is convinced we must work together. “Co-operation is better than competition,” he says. “Physics has reinforced the fact that we...
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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 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
Jul 31, 202041 min read
A Civic Environmentalism and Moral Ecology
A Civic Environmentalism and Moral Ecology: linking ethical, social, and ecological approaches in evolution and extension It’s always...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 11, 201937 min read
God's Invitation to Play
God’s invitation to Play The Beauty that lights the path to the Truth and Goodness of the World Ecology friends on social media shared,...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 10, 2019111 min read
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest
Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest Introduction I start by noting the extent to which defenders of the institutions of...
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Peter Critchley
Jun 18, 201935 min read
Changes: Climate Change, Civilization Change, System Change, Self-Change
Changes: Climate Change, Civilisation Change, System Change, Self-Change I shall try to be as brief as I possibly can be. Over the years...
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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
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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