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The Shock Doctrine: No Conspiracy Necessary

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand world history of the last 50 years is Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine. Her extraordinary account begins with the exploits of one Dr. Ewan Cameron, president of the American and World Psychiatric Association, who’s theories on treating psychiatric patients by erasing their personalities became influential in the [...]

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Back to Nature #4: The Trouble with Green

Sunday, January 13, 2008

The Trouble with Green “Here’s the point: you look out there, at the environment, and with your senses you can plainly see the wonderful, glorious, empirical world of nature. And of course you want to help save nature from destruction, not only because nature is beautiful, but because your own existence depends in many ways [...]

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Back to Nature #3 The Evolution of Consciousness

Sunday, January 6, 2008

The Evolution of Consciousness Part 1 In “Back to nature #2” I explored Deep Ecology and the idea that the response to the environmental problems we face should be to in some way “go back to nature” because “nature knows best”. I questioned this idea on the grounds that some versions imply an anthropocentric stance, [...]

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Film Review- What a Way to Go

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Film Review: What a Way to Go- Life at the End of Empire “If we knew all the facts, we’d have discarded the myth of the techno fix a long time ago. To my eye, our crisis, at its deepest levels, is a crisis not of technology, but of meaning and purpose… “Talking about this [...]

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David Strahan- Interview at Cool Earth

Sunday, September 16, 2007

David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock gave me this fascinating interview at the recent Cool Earth event in Dun Laoghaire You’ve said that you believe Peak is still a few years off… The narrowing envelope of forecasts is from about now to 2020; ASPO have 2010- there is a range. Those who think [...]

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