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, January 20, 2014

Green Capitalism: The God That Failed

Click here to access a review from TruthOut of a book by Richard Smith, a re-posting of an article from March 2011 that appeared in Real-World Economics Review and Climate and Capitalism which I re-posted on my website in May 2011, then again the next day after a complete reading with this commentary.

It is a hopeful sign when liberal media sources such as Truthout republish articles like this, even though belatedly.
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