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

Friday, May 30, 2014

Staying in the environmental frying pan only gets us hotter

Click here to access article by Pete Dolack from his blog Systemic Disorder.

 The metaphorical frying pan as "green capitalism" is what is suggested by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report which insists that capitalist economies can solve the problem of climate destabilization with little cost. Dolack argues...
Green capitalism is destined to fail: You can’t keep doing the same thing and expect different results. We can’t shop our way out of global warming nor are there technological magic wands that will save us. There is no alternative to a dramatic change in the organization of the global economy and consumption patterns.
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