Cold Peace
January 27, 2022
After more than 70 years of diplomatic non-recognition, last year the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco all joined Egypt and Jordan in “normalizing” ties with Israel.
Read articleRead articleDefund Pentagon
January 25, 2022
America still has a staggering 750 military bases in some 80 countries, truly an empire on which the sun never sets.
Read articleRead articleSpirit of '68
January 19, 2022
First students, then workers, professors, nurses, doctors, bus drivers and a piecemeal league of artists, anarchists, and Enragés took to the streets, erected barricades, fought with police, occupied offices, factories, dockyards, railway depots, theaters and university campuses, sang songs, issued manifestos, sprayed slogans like “Live Without Dead Time” and “Down with the Spectacular-Commodity Culture” all over Paris, shaking the established order to its roots.
Read articleRead articleThe Solution Emerges (PT. 2)
December 2, 2021
The new accounting starts with the little stuff: plastic bags, coffee cups, paper napkins.
Read articleRead articleThe Surefire Solution to Our Climate Crisis.
December 1, 2021
Storms are building. Floods are surging. Wildfires are blazing. Heat and drought are desiccating the earth. People are suffering, their livelihoods combusting like so much dredged-up fossil matter.
Read articleRead articleA Flaw in the Algorithm (PT. 1)
December 1, 2021
If you burrow deep into the innards of the capitalist algorithm, you’ll find a major flaw: the vast majority of humankind’s carbon emissions are unpriced.
Read articleRead articleTrue-Cost Plastic (PT. 3)
December 1, 2021
How much plastic is coming out of the industrial bunghole annually?
Read articleRead articleTrue-Cost Driving (PT. 4)
December 1, 2021
Once we account for the environmental cost of carbon emissions, the cost of building and maintaining roads, the medical costs of accidents, and the noise and the aesthetic degradation of urban sprawl, your personally owned car will cost you around $100,000, and a tank of gas $150. You’ll still be free to drive all you want, but instead of passing the costs on to future generations, you’ll pay up front.
Read articleRead articleTrue-Cost Eating (PT. 5)
December 1, 2021
Once we tally the hidden costs of our industrial farming and food-processing systems, we raise the price of groceries to reflect the true cost of shipping them long distances.
Read articleRead articleTrue-Cost Shipping (PT. 6)
December 1, 2021
For years it’s been ridiculously cheap to use mega tankers to ship stuff across the ocean. That will stop.
Read articleRead articleNext-Level Accounting (PT. 7)
December 1, 2021
For conventional economists, True Cost is a gut punch. A true-cost Marketplace would slow growth, reduce the flow of world trade and curb consumption. It would force economists to rethink just about every axiom they’ve taken for granted since the dawn of the industrial age.
Read articleRead articleTrue Cost in the Political Sphere (PT. 8)
December 1, 2021
We push to get True Cost on the platforms of all the green parties of the world.
Read articleRead articleIs True Cost a Pipedream? (PT. 9)
December 1, 2021
“True Cost? Great idea! But it’s never gonna work.” That’s what they’ll all say.
Read articleRead articleHumanity’s Moment of Truth (PT. 10)
December 1, 2021
The human race is now a Pachinko ball tumbling through the machine. There is simply no predicting the outcome.
Read articleRead articleThis Nightmare
November 24, 2021
This nightmare is something from which we can awaken. Step 1...
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