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...

The Problem is Political, and so is the solution. I would like to comment on this article: Scientists call for a moratorium on climate...

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...

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...

Classless, amoral, and non-political. Such is the self-image of would-be planetary managers, a technocracy that works hand-in-hand with...

We’ve seen them before in history. And here they all are again, Homo Superior, the people who claim to be 'evolutionary leaders.' Barbara...

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...

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...

Re-politicising the Environment Environmentalism in its mainstream form demonstrates a strong scientistic and technocratic bent, with...

When Saving the Planet is merely Saving the Capital System Or, When system-change is appropriated and perverted to serve the end 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...

Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...

Laying the Bogey of Eco-Authoritarianism to Rest Introduction I start by noting the extent to which defenders of the institutions of...

Green Republicanism vs Anti-Political Extremism Sustaining the Health of the Political Environment I write this piece in response to the...

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

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,...

Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? BY ROBERT FROST Some say the world will end in...