Monthly Archives: May 2020

Now, let’s return to our February chapter, Here’s Why I’m so at Odds with Many of my Green Friends https://convivialeconomy.com/2020/02/26/heres-why-im-so-at-odds-with-many-of-my-green-friends/ … And let’s consider carbon sumps. . These are some sumps – true sumps, which it would be dangerous to … Continue reading →

Yes. Our industrial journey has been interrupted by oblivion. That is simple truth. Deny it, or accept it. Of course, every government of every developed economy denies it. So, we in those economies, must quietly embark at the next station, … Continue reading →

It should be a beautiful adventure – living in community again – supplying each-others’ needs. Learning the skills for that will prove to be another beautiful thing. As a tool touches its materials, so the human imagination touches the Earth. … Continue reading →

I propose that what most prevents us from evacuating both our crazy infinite-growth model and our equally crazy destruction of the natural world (which houses, clothes and feeds us) is our inability to embrace and choose the tragedies through which … Continue reading →

By the act of withdrawing our spending from the enclosures, and replacing it in the common we play our part in the collapse of enclosure and the revival of the common. . We cannot prevent collapse of the enclosures, but … Continue reading →

Our destination – changed people, same Earth. People know how to behave (to travel) by inner moral guidance, or otherwise by coercion by other people. That coercion is sometimes violent; sometimes seductive. . The only way to change myself is … Continue reading →

That my reality of collapsing ecosystems and catastrophic climatic disbalance is not the reality of anyone I meet, is driving me into the dark. I do not know how long I can endure total isolation. I may not emerge at … Continue reading →