Monthly Archives: June 2023

Industrialised nations responsible for excessive levels of carbon dioxide emissions could be liable to pay a total of $170 trillion in compensation or reparations by 2050 to ensure climate change targets are met, according to an international study involving the … Continue reading →

While we remain transfixed by a handful of needy egotists in Westminster and the crises they manufacture, across the Channel a revolution is happening. It’s a quiet, sober, thoughtful revolution, but a revolution nonetheless. France is seeking to turn itself … Continue reading →

David Schwartzman Peter Boyle’s review of Kohei Saito’s book Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Climate & Capitalism, June 23, 2023) provides an excellent account of its main points. My critique can be summed up as: … Continue reading →

by Peter Boyle Even if Japanese Marxist Kohei Saito had not written Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, the left today would still need to take the idea of degrowth seriously. This is because, economist and … Continue reading →

Public policies of sufficiency, focused on frugality, reducing resource consumption and shortening working hours, can significantly increase the quality of human life while reducing pressure on the environment, thus enabling sustainable prosperity without growth. Political leaders are gathering these days … Continue reading →

Guardian Opinion Letters 2 June 2023 The Tories may well be paying the price for their Brexit lies , but we are all paying the price for continuing to rely on the idea of growth at the heart of our … Continue reading →

Artificial intelligence technologies have been around for decades, but the speed with which language learning models like ChatGPT have entered the mainstream has intensified longstanding concerns. Meanwhile, tech companies have entered a kind of arms race, rushing to implement artificial … Continue reading →

Join RnDAO’s virtual event with Michel Bauwens, President of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives and a key member of the P2P Cooperative. Michel Bauwens is a renowned researcher and advocates for P2P-based social processes. He connects people interested in researching … Continue reading →

It is a sign of the times that a book entitled How to Blow Up a Pipeline, in which Swedish climate activist Andreas Malm advocates targeted sabotage of physical property, is being given the movie treatment. Even as political and … Continue reading →