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A TRANSCENDENT POLITICAL ISSUE: the global climate and environment crisis

05/19/2019

The increasingly rapid decline of nature’s ecosystems, accompanied by rising numbers of animal and plant extinctions (biomass depletion) due to Man’s activities (we are speaking here of massive environmental devastation, and of mass plant and animal extinctions, on a scale not seen before since the onset of the last great ice age), is both a tragedy in its own right, and a very serious threat to Human society’s ongoing survival. It is a tragedy of which I have personally been aware since my

MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG?

05/11/2019

The way I look at the world has changed more within the last decade than in all the decades that have gone before. And in few areas is this so clear as in my relationship with that political union of Anglo-Celtic nations I once thought of as “Britain”, and for which I once thought I felt such a patriotic love. There was once a time when I would have stood by the statement “My country, right or wrong.” There was a time when I was immensely proud of being British. Those times are past. If I

HIGH CAPITALISM, SOCIETY, AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL

05/03/2019

With high capitalism driving the devastating climate change and environmental harm that now afflicts the Planet, it has become imperative that we end its economic dominance. A “green new deal” (1) could successfully challenge the dominance of the high capitalist economic system that is responsible not only for devastating environmental harm, but for many of the ills which afflict developing and developed societies around the world. That of the south of England serves as a typical example of a

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Robert Dewar

A TRANSCENDENT POLITICAL ISSUE: the global climate and environment crisis

MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG?

HIGH CAPITALISM, SOCIETY, AND THE GREEN NEW DEAL