The Climate Activism I Support
The Climate Activism I Support I have published extensive criticisms of climate campaigning and of environmentalist politics over the...
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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
Jun 7, 202228 min read
Excommunication
Excommunication from the Ecomentalist Cult I was commenting on a green "friends’" post when I found that my comments had been removed, as...
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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
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 31, 202113 min read
The Best of People
The Best of People Yesterday I exchanged unpleasantries with someone who holds that “the best people can do in a crisis is panic buy...
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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
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 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 21, 202050 min read
Against Environmentalist Non-Politics
Against Environmental Non-Politics I’m finding the politics of climate activism increasingly incoherent. Activists call it a...
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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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