When Truths are Lies
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Peter Critchley
Jan 23, 20222 min read
The Dialectics of Socio-Ecological Sustainability
Abstract conceptions of sustainability always look reasonable on paper. The test is how these translate into the field of practical...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202221 min read
The Environmental Problem is Political, and so is the solution.
The Problem is Political, and so is the solution. I would like to comment on this article: Scientists call for a moratorium on climate...
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Peter Critchley
Jan 10, 202240 min read
Skepticism vs the new idolatry
I see a lot of Vikings on Facebook and Twitter, armed to the teeth with technology and warring daily on their keyboards. They are more...
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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
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...
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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
Nov 30, 202121 min read
The Motivational Economy
The Motivational Economy [Written October 2020] This post has been incited by comments made by a number of people involved in bridging...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 14, 202122 min read
Resisting the Psychocrats
Resisting Psychocrats I’m still on The Green Party’s mailing list, despite letting my membership lapse some time in 2018 or 2019. I left...
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Peter Critchley
Nov 11, 202122 min read
The Blight of Activism
The Blight of Permanent Activism Supplanting Politics Over a year ago I wrote a series a writings that involved a thorough take-down of...
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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
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 19, 202016 min read
Against Homo Superior
We’ve seen them before in history. And here they all are again, Homo Superior, the people who claim to be 'evolutionary leaders.' Barbara...
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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 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
Jul 21, 201981 min read
Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism
Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism Sustaining the Health of the Political Environment I write this piece in response to the...
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