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

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Climate change: three tales about extraordinary insanity. Part 1

Click here to access article by Will Denayer from Flassbeck Economics International (Germany).
This short series on climate change is in three parts. In the first part, I explain some of the latest findings about the climate. Things are looking increasingly poor, not to say outright disastrous. Incredibly, there is no reaction whatsoever.
(Part 2 is posted here.)