Triggered: “Planet of the Humans” & A Call for Emotional Intelligence

For the past few days, I’ve been enveloped in the recently released documentary, Planet of the Humans. After watching the film, I was left with many complex feelings. The overall tone is dark and combative, and the ending that features suffering orangutans was torturous to...

LaUra Schmidt

Could a Green New Deal Save Civilization?

To fully and systematically address the climate/energy crisis, the plan will have to be far broader in scope than what is currently being proposed. And while we need to mobilize society as a whole with a World War II-level of effort, the reality is that there’s never been...

Richard Heinberg

6 Reasons Why Planet of the Humans Is a Disaster of Misinformation

Overview I. Intro II. The problems ——#1. Misrepresenting ——

Ben Wehrman

Corona Crisis Reveals We Need Systemic, Not Just Individual Change

Climate change is not your fault.

Peter Sinclair

Richard Heinberg's Review of Planet of the Humans

A few days ago, Emily Atkin posted a reaction to Michael Moore’s latest film,

Richard Heinberg

Powerdown: Let's Talk About It

"The writing is on the wall: Powerdown is inevitable. If we want any hope of achieving it peacefully, we’ve got to start shifting — minds and physical infrastructure — today."

Joanne Poyourow

Movements Must Give Biden No Choice but to Move Left — as They've Done With Centrist Democrats in the Past

Movements forced progressive change under FDR and LBJ, but failed to move Obama. To change this country they must start pressuring Biden now.

Andy Bichlbaum

Seven Building Blocks for a Post-Corona World

With regular life on pause, we have a chance to stop and question the path we are taking at the deepest level.

Jason Angell

The Power of Disposable Time

In a recent article called “Coronavirus Requires a Collective Response” by professor David Harvey, I was struck by the timeliness of his argument. Harvey quoted Karl Marx a bunch but I’m going to simply paraphrase. Marx claimed that any major project to change the world will...

Josh Liveright

One World 1 - A Survival Strategy for Humanity

"It’s time to design a global society that fits the biological and material constraints of earth and also fits the psychological, cultural, and developmental needs of diverse peoples worldwide."

Armando Davila

Films For Action's Statement on Planet of the Humans

Why we took it down. Why we ultimately decided to put it back up (including this note). Plus our critiques and thoughts on the film.

Films For Action

The Triumph of Triviality

Clinical psychologist John F. Schumaker asks if modern consumer society is too shallow to deal with the deepening crises facing the planet.

John F. Schumaker

Forget About Planet of the Humans

SHAME on these filmmakers for making a film like this, full of misinformation and disinformation, to intentionally depress audiences, and make them think there are no alternatives.

Neal Livingston

Skepticism Is Healthy, but Planet of the Humans Is Toxic

It can be refreshing to watch a true believer taking a deeper look at their own sacred cows. But in his rush to be open-minded about his long-cherished environmental beliefs, Jeff Gibbs has thrown out the baby with the bathwater. He lumps solar and wind power, which hold...

Timmon Wallis

Bill McKibben's Response to Planet of the Humans Documentary

A Youtube video emerged on Earth Day eve making charges about me and about 350.org — namely that I was a supporter of biomass energy, and that 350 and I were beholden to corporate funding, and have misled our supporters on the costs and trade-offs related to decarbonizing our...

Bill McKibben

Conspiracy Theorists Are Falsely Claiming That the Coronavirus Pandemic Is an Elaborate Hoax

In the midst of a global pandemic, conspiracy theorists have found yet another way to spread dangerous disinformation and misinformation about COVID-19, sowing seeds of doubts about its severity and denying the very existence of the pandemic.

Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai

23 Films to Watch After (Or Instead Of) Planet of the Humans

So you just watched Planet Of The Humans, and your spirits are feeling pretty crushed.

Tim Hjersted

What Happens in November

In the fall of 2009, I interviewed a Holocaust survivor from the Lodz ghetto. As a young girl, she had seen her whole family lined up and executed by a Nazi firing squad in a spray of machine gun fire, alongside hundreds of the people she had grown up with.

Matthew R. Bishop

Why I Stopped Protesting and Started a Garden

“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack...

John Halstead

Mourn and Organize!

We all love Joe Hill, but his famous piece of advice — “Don’t mourn, organize!” — is only half right. Given the state of the world today, with Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race and hundreds of thousands dead from the coronavirus, we ought to be doing both.

Liza Featherstone

Like It or Not, If We Run Third Party, We Will Lose

Socialists say they either want to “realign” the Democratic Party or break with it entirely. But those aren’t political strategies — they are outcomes of political struggle. We need a way to develop working-class politics without condemning ourselves to third-party marginality.

Dustin Guastella

Voters Guide: Use Your Vote to Choose Your Opponent

This guide explains why "year-round activism + voting" is the best strategy for creating the world we want. Voting alone won't do it, but "year-round activism + not voting" needlessly puts us at a tactical disadvantage. Spending 1 day to choose our political opponents for the...

Tim Hjersted

Biden Vs. Trump: Are We In or Out?

The next few months are decision time for the left.

Whitney Maxey

“It's Time to Engage in as Much Class Struggle as We Can”

The United Electrical workers’ union and the Democratic Socialists of America are teaming up to help nonunion workers organize during the coronavirus crisis. The goal: find workers who are already spoiling for a fight and help them win it.

Meagan Day and Mark Meinster

Coronavirus: the Need for a Progressive Internationalist Response

This pandemic health crisis exposes the injustices of the global economic order. It must be a turning point towards creating the systems, structures and policies that can always protect those who are marginalised and allow everyone to live with dignity.

TNI

The Tyranny of Decorum

David Sirota, a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, argues that a key mistake of the campaign was Sanders’s refusal to more forcefully articulate the contrasts between his record and Joe Biden’s.

David Sirota

Searching for the Anti-Virus | Covid-19 as Quantum Phenomenon

I've struggled to make sense of what is going on. My suspicious mind wandered around restlessly, examining all theories and possible explanations, yet I must admit: I don’t know what is happening. I do know this is a crucial moment of choice for humanity. In this essay, I...

Martin Winiecki

Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting*

You are not crazy, my friends

Julio Vincent Gambuto

Pandemic Response Requires Post-Growth Economic Thinking

Amid a horrific human tragedy of sickness and death, much of it taking place in hospitals staffed by brave but overworked and under-equipped doctors and nurses, we are all learning once again what it feels like when economic growth comes to a shuddering stop and the economy...

Richard Heinberg

How Iceland Is Already Using Its Wellbeing Framework in Tackling the Covid-19 Crisis

This week a friend and colleague sent this written dialogue to me:

Dr. Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir

When Climate Met COVID: 7 Reasons We Should Tackle These Challenges Together

We face not one but three simultaneous inter-connected crises: the COVID-19 Emergency, the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency, and the Crisis of Capitalism. We urgently need connected constructive responses.

Guy Dauncey

Share This With Your Governor: 12 Ideas for How States Can Respond to the Covid-19 Crisis

Everyone knows that the three, multi-trillion-dollar stimulus bills passed by Congress fall way short. For most local businesses—the lifeblood of our economy—these bills offer too little relief, too late. I’m hopeful though that the states (and maybe, in some places...

Michael Shuman

Thich Nhat Hanh on Finding Peace

The Power of Peace Humankind has become a very dangerous species. We need people who can sit still and be able to smile, who can walk peacefully. We need people like that in order to save us. Recently I was sitting with a group of children, and a boy named Tim was...

Thich Nhat Hanh

Solidarity Amid Pandemic! All Cultures of Resistance Films Now Free for Viewing From Your Home

Dear friends, as coronavirus continues to spread across the globe and whole countries go into lockdown, we need solidarity and creative resistance now more than ever. At Cultures of Resistance Films, we’re joining an effort started by film festivals to make art free and...

Iara Lee

Bernie's Decision: Retreat Should Not Be Confused With Surrender

In these important battles we wage, we will often lose—but we must not give up.

Norman Solomon

A 10-Point Emergency Program to Tackle the Coronavirus Epidemic in the U.S.

We propose ten immediate measures to tackle the health emergency, address the immediate needs of working-class families, and provide, in the face of an inevitable economic fallout, basic income security and living conditions to the vast majority of the population.

Left Voice

Mexico Is Showing the World How to Defeat Neoliberalism

While U.S. advocates and local politicians struggle to get their first public banks chartered, Mexico’s new president has begun construction on 2,700 branches of a government-owned bank to be completed in 2021, when it will be the largest bank in the country. At a press...

Ellen Brown

A Healthy Way to Embrace Big Emotions: Take It to the Trees

One of the most important things you can do to live a meaningful and rewarding life filled with vitality is to reclaim your emotions. When you reclaim your emotions you rescue yourself from the numb and deadening state of “fine” and from the dependence on alcohol, drugs...

Eric Bowers

The Problem Is the Solution: How Permaculture-Designed Household Isolation Can Lead to Retrosuburbia

As the COVID-19 pandemic first exploded across our globalised world, I found myself unsure of priorities in this time of pivotal change, even though I had been tracking information about Wuhan since January. Not because I didn’t know that a global pandemic of this scale was...

David Holmgren

The Four Foundations of True Liberty

Democracy is fragile. If just one foundation is missing, the ropes of democracy can stretch, weaken, and break.

UBI.Earth

'The Impossible Has Already Happened': What Coronavirus Can Teach Us About Hope

In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible.

Rebecca Solnit

Youth Leadership Gave Biden a "Cheat Sheet" for Winning the Support of Young Progressives

Not all of them. But enough to potentially beat Trump.

Films For Action

A World With a $24 Minimum Wage

If worker pay had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968, a full-time minimum wage worker would be earning $48,000 a year today.

Dean Baker

Coronavirus Coverage on Films For Action

We wanted to put all our Coronavirus coverage in one place, as a resource to share with friends and loved ones. The quality of our response is only as strong as the quality of our knowledge. [ffa-repeater][horizontal]23903...

Films For Action

Unemployment Is Designed to Fail

State Unemployment agencies have been charged with the grave task of salvaging an economy on the brink of collapse, theoretically through the emergency distribution of living wages and stipends.

Matthew R. Bishop

As Coronavirus Opens the Door to Big Changes, the Left's Most Attractive Vision Faces Pushback

For many Americans, it’s time for a system change along the lines of the Nordic model. This has the political establishment deeply worried.

George Lakey

The Centrist Delusion: 'Middle Ground' Politics Aren't Moderate, They're Dangerous

In a world of competing narratives serving competing interests, there’s always a temptation to gravitate to the political centre ground, the would-be midpoint between two apparent extremes, with its aura of moderation, reasonableness and realism. After all, isn’t the truth...

Raoul Martinez

Coronavirus and Climate Activism: Five Common Lessons

The pandemic is a testing ground for how to address the climate crisis, and vice-versa.

Nadia Colburn

Our Economic System Is on Life Support, But Who Are We Really Saving?

Pumping new money into the economy without altering power relations will only exacerbate existing inequalities.

Laurie Macfarlane

2020: When the Great Disruption Began

“The last global crisis didn’t change the world. But this one could” - William Davies It was always going to come to this. Whether it was a pandemic triggering a shutdown, a climate emergency bursting the carbon bubble, a populist backlash against inequality, wars over...

Paul Gilding

John Foran's Interim Program for a New World. What's Yours?

Since April 1 in some parts of the world is a traditional day for playing tricks and elaborate jokes (mostly on one’s friends), I found myself musing about the world I would like to see and had some fun taking about five minutes to jot down the following list (without...

John Foran

Freedom and the Market

When freedoms clash, some must take priority over others. In the economy, the mechanism that determines which freedoms are prioritised is the property rights system. Property rights bestow the freedom to control and profit from what is owned. They determine who has...

Raoul Martinez

Covid-19 Could Teach Us How to Avoid the Worst Consequences of Climate Change

A devastating problem crops up.

Elizabeth Sawin

Coronavirus Spells the End of the Neoliberal Era. What's Next?

Coronavirus is a political crucible, melting down and reshaping current norms. Will the new era be a “Fortress Earth” or a harbinger of a transformed society based on a new set of values?

Jeremy Lent

5 Ways Coronavirus Could Help Humanity Survive the Ecological Crisis

The human tragedy of the coronavirus is immense. Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands have been infected globally, and millions more have been affected. Whilst infectious disease has always been a part of the human experience, the expansion of industrial civilization...

Matt Mellen

Comparative Resilience: 8 Principles for Post-COVID Reconstruction

This past weekend, a bright Georgetown undergraduate asked me how I squared my passion for localization with the theory of comparative advantage. For economics newbies, he was referring to David Ricardo’s argument that every community should find one product to specialize in...

Michael Shuman

The Decade of Transformation Is Here: Remaking the Economy for the People

The pandemic, economic collapse and the government’s response to them are going to not only determine the 2020 election but define the future for this decade and beyond. People are seeing the failure of the US healthcare nonsystem and the economy. The government was able to...

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers

NOTES FROM QUARANTINE

Josh Liveright

Building the New America

I: The American Reality America was founded on a dream. It was a dream that all people, from all the war-torn and disease-ridden corners of the earth, could come to this new-age Promised Land and build a common future side-by-side. It was half history, and half mythology...

Matthew R. Bishop

The Coronation: Charles Eisenstein's 9000 Word Epic on Covid-19

“Covid-19 is like a rehab intervention that breaks the addictive hold of normality. To interrupt a habit is to make it visible; it is to turn it from a compulsion to a choice. When the crisis subsides, we might have occasion to ask whether we want to return to normal, or...

Charles Eisenstein

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