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Nick Clegg • You and the Algorithm: It Takes Two to Tango | by Nick Clegg | Mar, 2021 | Medium
Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA since 2014, is among those taking note and reforming the organisation she leads in response: she quickly realised that the organisation’s model was ‘allowing people to outsource their sense of agency; outsource their civic engagement to us. We were saying: give us 20 bucks a month to become a “mem
... See moreJon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
The advocates of green capitalism and “renewables” offer fraudulent assurances that, with oversight, resource extraction could be done without destroying habitats, ecosystems and human communities, but they know this will never happen.
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
This is what a more-than-human politics actually looks like: the careful and conscious attention to the needs and desires of others, the acknowledgement of their agency and value, and the willingness to adapt our existing structures of society and place to better account for all of us.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
Why Everything is Becoming a Game
Negative interest on currency must accompany Georgist or Gesellian levies on land as well, and indeed on any other source of “economic rents.” The physical commons of land, the genome, the ecosystem, and the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as the cultural commons of ideas, inventions, music, and stories, must be subject to the same carry costs as
... See moreCharles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
We probably didn’t know what we were doing thousands of years ago as we hunted some large mammals to extinction. But we know what we’re doing now. We know how to tread more lightly upon the earth. We could choose to use less energy, eat less meat, clear fewer forests. And we choose not to. As a result, for many forms of life, humanity is the apocal
... See moreJohn Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
Governments have to scramble to keep industrial activity growing in a perpetual bid to stave off crisis. So we’re trapped. Growth is a structural imperative – an iron law. And it has ironclad ideological support: politicians on the left and right may bicker about how to distribute the yields of growth, but when it comes to the pursuit of growth its
... See moreJason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
When we do, we assume the politicians are clients in a patron–client relationship, and we assume their obligations will cloud their impartial judgment.