When Is Reality “Reality”?: Media And Progressive Issues
Randy Olson of The Benshi has a point to make and it’s an important one. Unfortunately it is easy to lose it in what is otherwise a pretty garbled and incoherent posting. That would be unfortunate, so what I hope do is underscore his core point while critiquing some of the incoherence as a way […]
Do I Make A Difference? Never Send To Know …
The vastness of the problems we face makes it easy to feel tiny and insignificant. This is true whether we are talking about poverty, racism, environment or ‘other.’ The cause du jour for despair and a sense of futility seems to be climate change, but what I have to say about it applies to any […]
Environmental Politics: Agitate Or Cooperate?
One of my favourite sayings is to the effect that when you can’t decide, do both at once; agitate and cooperate!
Parsing McKibben: If There Be Sorrow
In Mckibben’s analysis: “ … at least part of the problem lies within environmentalism, which no longer does enough real organizing to build the pressure that could result in real change. Many of our largest environmental groups are still running on the momentum they built up in the early 1970s.”
GIGO: Turning And Turning In The Widening Gyre
The very good news is that the solution to the garbage patch(es) is technologically feasible, straightforward, and cheap. Even better, it not only deals with the garbage patches, it also goes a long way to solving a plethora of environmental problems from climate change to deforestation. The very bad news is that we don’t want to do it. I refer of course to reducing consumption, radically.
