When Truths are Lies
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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 20, 20209 min read
Naturism, Romanticism, and Technocracy
Classless, amoral, and non-political. Such is the self-image of would-be planetary managers, a technocracy that works hand-in-hand with...
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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
Oct 5, 201911 min read
Re-politicizing the Environment
Re-politicising the Environment Environmentalism in its mainstream form demonstrates a strong scientistic and technocratic bent, with...
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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...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 30, 2019118 min read
Coercive Environmental Collectivism advancing the Corporate Form
Why we need heroes like Greta Thunberg There is an ugly campaign underway to discredit Greta Thunberg. That campaign is based on fear of...
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Peter Critchley
Aug 17, 201919 min read
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action
Fostering the Inner Motives and Virtues for Environmental Action I am reading conservative criticisms of what they call a ‘coercive...
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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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Peter Critchley
May 21, 20198 min read
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason
Bridging Theoretical and Practical Reason Bridging the gap between theoretical reason and practical reason. We scientists don't know how...
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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
Dec 7, 201730 min read
Let us not speak of them, look and pass by
Day after day I wade through the self-perpetuating, self-consuming cycles of climate despair on Facebook. I try my best to ignore it,...
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Peter Critchley
Jul 28, 201529 min read
Fire and Ice
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...
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