Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In its many projects, Shareable has shown just how diverse, creative, and consequential organized sharing can be. The power of bottom-up collaboration focused on specific needs is powerful. When modest infrastructures are created to empower people to contribute their talents, some amazing things happen.
In this mess we are in today, with fascism on the rise, with the risk of war, with burnout and anxiety, there are many reasons for hope. If we fight to get rid of capitalism and transition to an economy that truly values life, I think we can win.
Proposals advocating a democratization of the economic sphere of life must therefore be central to the bioeconomy proposal. It is also crucial to recover its original definition and thus avoid its distortion into another, albeit greener, utilitarian framework.
In this episode, Nate is joined by ecologist Thomas Crowther to discuss the critical importance of biodiversity as an intricate web of life that supports all other living beings, not just through the sheer number of species, but because of the complexity of interactions within ecosystems.
The only question is whether we manage degrowth or just let it happen to us. This isn’t a neutral question. I know which one of these is worse.
For anybody taking a closer look, it’s quickly obvious that our current money system isn’t working for most people, nor is it compatible with a sustainable future. This book does a very good job of explaining why that is so.
After centuries of rule by kings, emperors, tyrants, mad men, fascists, communists, military dictatorships and mega-corporations, We the People of the world are now ready to take charge of our own destiny and start calling the shots from below.
Growth is often a pale substitute for value, which often takes a back seat to flackery, smoke, and mirrors. The brightest business minds of tomorrow will shrug off the constraints of the shareholder-primacy model and embrace new modes of finance and governance.
At the heart of everything this is what a strong social movement needs: people coming together to form meaningful and lasting friendships with a shared passion for system change and a willingness to push for that change.
The main lesson is that debt cancellation is a crucial component of a global energy transition, and substantial reconstruction funds must also accompany it. What would be the overarching rationale for the cancellation? To ensure that low-income countries constitute a strong and economically successful defense against climate change.
So, yes, we need to condemn globalization loud and clear. And we need a cohesive strategy that moves us sensibly and sanely in the opposite direction.
Let’s keep pushing businesses to behave better and to innovate in ways that are genuinely beneficial for us and the environment, and let’s celebrate them when they do. But we should not expect – and we certainly should not depend on – commercial salvation.
