We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Monday, March 3, 2014

Who's afraid of ruins?

Click here to access article by Out of the Woods's blog (a collective) posted on libcom. (Be sure to read another article by the same people immediately following this post on my website.)
Capitalism is locking-in climate change for centuries, but in the process, making radical social change more realistic than tinkering around the edges.