Dismantle Civilisation

The Copenhagen Climate Talks – the 15th conference of all the parties of the UNFCC – have now come to a close.  The hope was that the gathered world leaders and politicians would have created a legally binding deal that would see global emissions of greenhouse gas fall drastically as the science demanded, limiting the [...] Read more »

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Here’s an interesting article about hope and Copenhagen (it was written at the start of the conference, so doesn’t cover anything that’s happened since), by Paul from The Dark Mountain Project:
Writing about the Copenhagen summit – indeed, writing about climate change in general – is starting to make me feel like the Grinch who stole [...] Read more »

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Here’s an interesting article from Micah White of adbusters:

Experts agree that we are experiencing perilous climate change that calls the fate of our experiment in civilization into question. As severe weather strikes one continent and mysterious die-offs occur in another, the death rattle of the natural environment grows louder. “Where have all the fireflies gone?” [...] Read more »

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Our obligation as activists, the first step, the essence, is to part the cultural veil at long last, and to tell the truth…… The root cause, the source of the symptoms, is 300 years of our relentlessly exploitative, extractive, and exponentially growing technoculture, against the background of ten millennia of hierarchical and colonial civilizations.
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Reprinted from Reality Sandwich.
If you want to go fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Whilst, like you, I’ve read many a tale of imminent ecological collapse, impending disaster, and fervent fear mongering within the pages of some of our more dubious dailies, I could never say I’d been “shaken to [...] Read more »

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It has become obvious from recent press releases, campaigns and actions that the environmental movement has started to focus on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in December 2009 (COP15).  The rallying cry is that this is the last opportunity world governments will have to agree to start reducing greenhouse gas emissions and cut these [...] Read more »

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Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Read more »

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The time of the G20 summit in London approaches, where the leaders of the 22 nations that make up the vast majority of world GDP are meeting to discuss the economic crisis as well as free trade, climate change and other current crucial issues. As per usual, a series of counter-protests have been organised by [...] Read more »

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Keith Farnish points out, at the Seitch, that James Lovelock’s belief that it is ‘too late’ only relates to industrial civilisation or the Culture of Maximum Harm. The world has already passed the climatic point of no return, we can not save industrial civilisation – why would we want to?
From memory, Gaia: A New Look [...] Read more »

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If you ever needed proof of how far the majority of the environmental movement is from figuring out the core truths of the ecological and social catastrophe facing this planet, it can be found in this article written by former US Vice-President Al Gore and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Indeed, the very title of this [...] Read more »

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