A few days after the Russian attack on Ukraine, a new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was released, making it unmistakably clear that the Earth is on the verge of tipping over into uncontrollable climate chaos unless countermeasures are taken very quickly. Half of the world’s population, according to the report, is already at risk … Read More
The Wrong Apocalypse. Why Covid-19 has provoked a state of emergency worldwide, while the climate crisis has not
Industrialized countries are imposing a shock program on their citizens and their economies in order to fight the Corona pandemic. For this purpose, they resort to measures that are unprecedented in recent history: civil rights such as the freedom of assembly and the freedom of movement are suspended in many countries for an indefinite period, as is the right to … Read More
Exit from the Megamachine
Why a social-ecological transformation is impossible without changing the deep structures of our economy Reading the news exposes us to a flood of catastrophic messages: devastating droughts and wildfires, failing states, pandemics and financial crashes. You can look at all those incidents as unconnected singular phenomena, which is exactly what the common presentation of news suggests. From another angle, however, … Read More