Vegan Organic GMO-Free Gluten-Free no-spray post

by | Jul 26, 2026 | agnotology, agroecology, Aphorisms, Bad Advertising, beyond idealism, beyond liberalism, Bureaucratic quixotic, Communication, Decolonization, Discursive Gap, duh, exploitation, folly, Unpleasant Design

We need the default to be good. By which I mean intentional. Nature. If it’s made with AI, it must say “Made with AI,” so that we don’t have to constantly be checking everywhere and everyone doesn’t have to obsessively say, “I made...

Framing the present moment through radical green politics for resisting dictatorship in the twenty-first century

by | Jan 7, 2026 | agnotology, beyond liberalism, collapsology, Environmental Justice, Environmental Political Theory, fake loops, folly, Normal is Over, Oil Barons, parasitism, Verschlimmbessern

Democracy is not “under threat.” It is being abandoned.  The U.S. is sliding toward dictatorship.Europe is following closely behind.Much of the “liberal West” is choosing appeasement over resistance. This is not a sudden crisis. It is the predictable outcome of a...

It’s Time for Big Oil to Take the Loss: Why Fossil Fuel Companies Need to Stop Suing Over Groningen

by | Nov 19, 2025 | beyond liberalism, Climate Change, collapsology, duh, Energy, Environmental Justice, folly, pollution, Priorities, Public Health, Semiocide, Systems thinking

Picture this: You run a business that makes you €64.7 billion over sixty years. Your operations cause over 1,600 earthquakes that damage almost 100,000 homes and traumatize an entire region. When the government finally shuts you down to protect citizens and the...

Talk: 9 April, 2025 on Exporting Suffering: The Flower Industry at Home and Abroad

by | Mar 22, 2025 | agroecology, beyond liberalism, chemicals, Climate Change, Communication, Decolonization, deep ecology, Environmental Justice, exploitation, Fragmentation, Greenwashing, Indigenous Peoples, Industrial Epidemics, philosophy of science, Plants, Public Health, Semiocide, Side-effects, Syndemics, Talks

Everyone loves flowers. They brighten our day. They remind us of the beauty of life, and they are ephemeral, a memento mori of sorts to reflect upon our own mortality. But in the past half-century, the presence of flowers has moved from local to global markets, from...