Ancient Greeks and many other civilisations were obsessed with the concept of “sacrifice for the greater good”. They believed that if they let go of something precious, they can earn something in return. It was a naive concept made to one’s measure: you got to pick both what you wanted, as well as what you … Continue reading Trading Corpses for Rain: How Global Capital Became a Deity
As the planet slips further into “uncharted territory”, a phrase which now almost every meteorologist uses, it is time for climate science to stop pretending: to admit, publicly, that climate science as a scientific discipline is in uncharted waters itself. This admission will never happen of course, as long as scientists want to hold on … Continue reading How Global Capital Killed Climate Science
The most successful protests in human history were led by angry mobs with simple and concrete demands: freedom, food, equality, the right to vote and so on. The anger, the urgency and the passion drove some demonstrators to even sacrifice their lives for their cause. Whether they were French peasants, African Americans, LGBTQ activists or … Continue reading Can a System Revolt Against Itself? Why Climate Protest May Be Completely Doomed.
We are all bullied into working for an economic system which in turn bullies the planet. This chain of exploitation, injustice and inequality is not simply a side effect of capitalism. It is what drives it. And like all bullies, this system depends on the subordination and psychological control of its victims. Our society is … Continue reading Bullied by Global Capital: Revolt of The Consumatrons
We are paying a hefty price for having confused capitalism with democracy. This is most typically true in the West, where unregulated markets and an infinite choice of products have created this perfect optical illusion of freedom. But free markets and an infinity of products facilitate neither free speech nor free ideas. Free ideas are … Continue reading The Great Illusion of Freedom. Surely This Must Be a Democracy?
cont'd from Part 1 ...Killing the Thing of course suggests the collapse of many, but maybe not all, of the edifices of our civilization it depends upon. But very few admit this dark truth publicly. This is why, for every pragmatic and honest book on this subject matter, there are twenty more utopian, “hopeful” ones … Continue reading In The Grip of Necrocapitalism (Part 2)
Thousands of years ago humans supercharged their destiny by embracing the most disruptive, powerful, and life-changing technologies. Although the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions are traditionally discussed as discrete epochs, they are in fact part of one, big progression: our increasing capability to do things at scale; in the case of these three revolutions, to … Continue reading The Impossible Math of Growth
Global capital has deceived billions who cared about the planet by selling them “green solutions” that are anything but green, simply by virtue of the fact that these solutions are products. All products are harmful to the planet, however green their credentials might be. Bringing a product to market inflicts immense devastation: the minute a … Continue reading The Great “Solutions” Swindle: Capital, Products, Technology and the Civilisational Lie
Evolution has come a long way, perhaps longer than we thought. We would like to believe that we, humans, represent the forefront of evolution on Earth. But there are arguably other forms of existence which supersede us, including some which precede us. The most terrifying life form on the planet is our own economic system: … Continue reading The Thing: It Is Alive and Intelligent
This planet may have witnessed five major previous extinction events, but it has never been boiled before this fast, this much, for this long. A combination of ecological destruction, pollution, and the expected culmination of the climate crisis over the coming hundreds of years, constitute Earth's first ever long-range sudden systemic extinction (LRSSE) event. A … Continue reading Long-Range Sudden Systemic Extinction (LRSSE): Why This Time Will Be Different
George Tsakraklides 