Revolution is the political part of E.A.R.T.H. In this introduction, I try to outline where we are at politically, what progress has been made, what is yet to come and how we might help get there.
A fairly middle of the road environmental party of which I am a member, the Australian Greens, is often labelled extreme by conservative opponents. This is a discussion of what it means to be labelled extreme.
A friend was publishing The Equal Standard magazine as part of her Phd, and asked for submissions on the topic of Extremism. I did two versions and this is the one which got published.
I wanted to write an explanation of why I thought anarchism was the only philosophy capable of taking us into the future. It ended up being more of an extended mind dump, so forgive me for that, but I hope you find something interesting in it. Caveat lector!
A long stream of consciousness I wrote in my twenties at the point I started to become who I am today. I've changed since then, and I've written better things since then, but the direction of my ethics as expressed in this article hasn't changed too much.
An email was sent to an environment collective I was part of asking how it is that the conservatives so easily won the 2004 Australian federal election when they were so clearly morally bankrupt? This is my vitriolic answer.
One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere
From Puritan Pulpit to Corporate PR
Sharon Beder's previous book "Global Spin: The corporate assault on environmentalism", would be in the top handful of books which have influenced my thinking. Thus, when she released this book on work, I was an easy target. Selling the Work Ethic asks questions about our society which seem forbidden in the mainstream media. Both the corporate media and our government-owned "public" media have an interest in keeping the capitalist growth machine grinding away. Human labour underpins corporate profits, both from its part in the production of goods and giving workers the ability to consume them. National budgets rely in a...