When Truths are Lies
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Peter Critchley
Jan 14, 202229 min read
When Naturalism Becomes an Inhumanism
Naturalism as an Inhumanism This essay consists of thoughts and observations incited by the reaction the following article inspired: What...
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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 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 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
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
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
Mar 15, 20208 min read
The Eco-Socialism We Choose
I am all in favour of socialism. I should be, having been a socialist all my life and having written several books advocating socialism....
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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
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...
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Peter Critchley
Sep 28, 201977 min read
Turning Green Gloom into Green Growth
From Green Gloom to Green Growth It is curious that people who well know recent history concerning the corporate capture of the public...
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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:...
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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 11, 20199 min read
Fostering Transformative Motivations within Communities of Practice
Fostering Transformative Motivations within Communities of Practice I’ve been re-reading Lewis Mumford recently, noting the contemporary...
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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
Aug 6, 201958 min read
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope
Politics for the Restoration of Ecological Hope I shall start with a quote from John Bellamy Foster’s article The Long Ecological...
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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
Jul 4, 201912 min read
Glastonbury is Rubbish
Before I go any further, I need to explain why this post is even necessary. I don’t much like Glastonbury, so pass on. There’s a couple...
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