We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Extreme weather, more extreme greenhouse gas emissions beckon urgent activism

Click here to access article by Patrick Bond (reporting from So. Africa) from the International Journal of Socialist Renewal

The author provides an update on the worldwide assaults on the Earth's ecosystem by business as usual under capitalism, and the picture grows ever more ominous.