Social change theory
When the Cause is Everything
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 3, 2023 | Human Society | 0
The government and people of El Salvador are in an impossible situation not of their own making. Therefore, to argue, as I see right and left doing, about whether this is a good policy is a diversion from the real originating issues.
Read MoreWhat is the Next Story?
by Charles Eisenstein | Jan 10, 2023 | Human Society | 0
We are sensing a metamorphosis of these basic myths that create the world – a transition from an old to a new story. Many are well familiar with this idea, but I’d like to clarify exactly what I think these old and new stories may be.
Read MorePandemic Amnesty, Yes—And Here is the Price
by Charles Eisenstein | Nov 4, 2022 | Human Society | 0
A recent article in The Atlantic, “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty,” has been making waves in the Covid dissident community. But how can an amnesty be supported without accountability and clear steps taken to ensure this doesn’t happen again.
Read MoreFeminine Power
by Charles Eisenstein | Nov 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The province of matriarchy is what. The province of patriarchy is how. What shall we do, that is in service to life, love, and beauty? How shall we do it? These questions merge and flow into each other. What becomes how, how becomes what. Such is the conjugation of matriarchy and patriarchy.
Read MorePandemania, Part 5
by Charles Eisenstein | Aug 9, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Safety mania and death phobia are signs of a disconnection from purpose and passion. If you have nothing more important than your own life, then preserving life is left as the only purpose.
Read MorePandemania, Part 4
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
How to become incorrigible…
Read MorePandemania, Part 3
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
On lies and systemic deceit…
Read MorePandemania, Part 2
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
More on abuse, division, and the promise of coherency
Read MorePandemania, Part 1
by Charles Eisenstein | Jul 26, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The social illness I speak of is not Covid per se, but our response to it. I will call the illness pandemania—a social, psychological, and political derangement that caused much more harm than the disease itself, and continues to do so.
Read MoreTranshumanism and the Metaverse
by Charles Eisenstein | Jun 19, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The promoters of the transhumanist Metaverse describe it as not only good, but inevitable. It may seem so, given that it is an extension of an age-old trend. But hopefully by making its underlying myths and assumptions visible, we can exercise a conscious choice in embracing or refusing it.
Read MoreForget Liberating Ukraine – We First Need To Liberate Our Minds
by The CNCL Team | Jun 11, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Because we in the West are the strongest tribe on the planet, we are also the most deluded, the most propagandized, and the most dangerous.
Read MoreCompartmentalization: UFOs and Social Paralysis
by Charles Eisenstein | May 16, 2022 | Human Society | 0
We will not resume our progress until we reunite our splintered society and psyche. Once we do, we may perhaps see the folly of the project to attain paradise through technological and social control, and we will turn our united energies toward an entirely different project.
Read MoreReinventing Progress: How to Move Beyond Technocracy
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 20, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The techno-scientific ambition for perfect knowledge and control is like trying to reach the horizon by running. It is like trying to build a tower all the way to the sky. No matter how fast and far you run, the horizon is no closer. No matter how high you build, the sky is no nearer.
Read MoreThe Field of Peace
by Charles Eisenstein | Mar 1, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Until we dismantle the empire and terminate the Military-industrial complex, something like Ukraine will recur again and again, whether instigated (as is usual) by the US imperial hegemon or by the adversaries it generates from its us-versus-them worldview. Can’t we write another plot for the human drama?
Read MoreAs Trudeau Cracks Down, the Left Drives Protesters Into the Arms of the Right Once Again
by The CNCL Team | Feb 18, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Divide and rule, the cultivation of tribalism, is an insurance policy against successful dissent and the threat of revolution
Read MoreOn the Great Green Wall, And Being Useful
by Charles Eisenstein | Feb 15, 2022 | Human Society | 0
The Great Green Wall is a reforestation, land healing, peace, water restoration, and anti-poverty project spanning the entire African continent, from Senegal in the west to Eritrea nearly 5000 miles to the east.
Read MoreWhy are Most People Cowards? Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism
by The CNCL Team | Feb 12, 2022 | Human Society | 0
“Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one do…except follow the mass political leader…or follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations?
Read MoreConsider The Possibility That This Is Already The Dystopia You Fear
by The CNCL Team | Jan 22, 2022 | Human Society | 0
Written by Caitlin Johnstone Consider the possibility that the Orwellian dystopia you fear is...
Read MoreThe Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
by The CNCL Team | Dec 24, 2021 | Human Society | 0
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read MoreDivide, Conquer; Unite, Heal
by Charles Eisenstein | Dec 23, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Whether deliberately or not, a situation has been engineered to dispose the public toward division. It is an old formula: Enemies are among us! The unclean put us all at risk! The heretics will bring the wrath of God upon us all! Let us recognize that ancient formula and how closely the dominant Covid narrative conforms to it.
Read MoreThe Vaccine Moment (part three) Or: How to Think about Klaus Schwab
by The CNCL Team | Dec 21, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Written by Paul Kingsnorth / The Abbey of Misrule This is the third and final part of Paul...
Read MoreThe COVID Fear Response and Wider Psychology With Dr Paris Williams: The Plant a Seed Podcast EP 16
by The CNCL Team | Dec 20, 2021 | Human Society | 1
In this conversation, Dan and Jono have a conversation with Dr Paris Williams and dive deep into his thoughts about the Covid 19 response in New Zealand and how fear shapes our behavior and the way we think and perceive the world. It’s an authentic look at the government’s response and its effects on the people in NZ.
Read MoreA Path Will Rise to Meet Us
by Charles Eisenstein | Dec 18, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Written by Charles Eisenstein The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation...
Read MoreA Gathering of the Tribe (a short film by Charles Eisenstein)
by Charles Eisenstein | Dec 12, 2021 | Personal | 0
It is time for us to come together. To gather, to rise, to love, to LIVE! You are not alone. I promise you, you are not alone.
Read MoreThe Vaccine Moment (Part Two): On Symbol and Story
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2021 | Human Society | 0
Paul continues with his theme that the virus is ‘apocalyptic,’ in the sense that it was revealing things previously hidden. One of these things has been the fractured nature of our stories; and that in turn has revealed just how fragile many of our societies are.
Read MoreMass Psychosis: Understanding the Descent into Collective Madness
by The CNCL Team | Dec 3, 2021 | Human Society | 0
A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century.
Read MoreIt’s Love, Not Fear, That Will Get Us Through the Covid Crisis
by Paris Williams | Nov 24, 2021 | Human Society | 3
The powers that be have been pushing with ever more force on the ‘fear’ button of human nature, leading to increased divisiveness and animosity among us. But what would happen if we find a way to say, “Enough is enough!” and let love (and its cousins empathy, courage, curiosity and kindness) sit in the driver’s seat?
Read MoreThe Covid Vaccine Mandates: A Trauma-Informed Perspective
by Paris Williams | Nov 4, 2021 | Human Society | 33
The New Zealand’s response to the Covid crisis – their ‘no jab, no job’ policy – is tearing the fabric of our society, and could potentially cause more harm than the virus itself. Dr Paris Williams invites us to explore this crisis through a trauma-informed lens, suggesting that this can offer us a way out of this mess.
Read MoreA Temple of this Earth: Moving Beyond Redemptive Violence
by Charles Eisenstein | Sep 22, 2021 | Human Society | 0
A saying goes, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” And the primal lie of war is the same as that of mob violence, the pogrom, and the witch hunt: that certain people are not fully human. As long as we perpetuate that lie, humanity will continue the tragic historical pattern. We will also remain befuddled in our personal and collective sense-making.
Read MoreRadical Compassion: Our Evolutionary Imperative
by Paris Williams | Apr 26, 2021 | Personal | 0
We find ourselves accelerating towards the precipice of extinction. How did we get here? And is there any way we can avoid hurtling into the abyss? The concept of “Radical Compassion” offers us an intriguing lens through which to find some answers to these questions.
Read MoreFoundational Attachment – The Key to Humanity’s Survival?
by Paris Williams | Apr 8, 2021 | Human Society | 0
In this brief presentation, Dr Paris Williams discusses the concept of “Foundational Attachment” – a deep sense of belonging to and connection with the Earth and Cosmos – and how this concept can help us understand how we’ve arrived at this precipice of our own extinction; and how it may guide us back into harmony with the Gaian system.
Read MoreHow Consumerism Destroys Our Minds (George Monbiot)
by The CNCL Team | Mar 26, 2021 | Human Society | 0
George Monbiot clearly illustrates how the deep-seated rot of consumerism has invaded and seriously harmed nearly every domain of life – from our own minds to society at large, to our fellow Earthlings and ultimately the entire biosphere. A must watch!
Read MoreCan Madness Save the World? (Excerpt from “The ReKindling”)
by Paris Williams | Mar 25, 2021 | Human Society | 1
Dr Paris Williams attempts to answer the question, “Can Madness Save the World?” in this excerpt from the longer “ReKindling” webinar.
Read MoreFrom Breaking Down to Breaking Through (in just 8 minutes)
by Paris Williams | Mar 7, 2021 | Personal | 1
What do all living beings and living systems share? They have the capacity to turn “breaking down” into “breaking through.”
Read MoreYou’re Not A Radical, You’re Just Sane
by The CNCL Team | Feb 7, 2021 | Human Society | 0
The status quo isn’t the baseline of normality, sanity is. A sane, healthy world would look wildly different from this one, and we need to help people get clear on the distinction so we can all start creating that world together.
Read MorePapering Over the Rot
by The CNCL Team | Feb 7, 2021 | Human Society | 0
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
Read MoreWhy Is the World Going to Hell? Netflix’s the Social Dilemma Tells Only Half the Story
by The CNCL Team | Jan 13, 2021 | Human Society | 0
The Social Dilemma offers us an opportunity to sense the ugly, psychopathic face shielding behind the mask of social media’s affability. But for those watching carefully the film offers more: a chance to grasp the pathology of the system itself that pushed these destructive social media giants into our lives.
Read MoreChange the World – Right Here, Right Now
by Brad Dixon | Dec 1, 2020 | Personal | 0
Right here, and right now, the insanity of the human condition is playing out on the Earth. The cause? Humankind’s total breakdown in connection with each other and our natural world.
Read MoreYes, It’s All the Fault of Big Oil, Facebook and ‘The System’. But Let’s Talk About You This Time
by The CNCL Team | Nov 19, 2020 | Personal | 0
The idea that individuals can’t solve the climate crisis has gained momentum in progressive circles. They say we can’t change the world by shaming each other for air travel or eating meat. But how much are ideals worth if they don’t demand sacrifices?
Read MoreHumanity Has Trolled Itself Into An Awaken-Or-Die Situation
by The CNCL Team | Oct 30, 2020 | Human Society | 0
We are hurtling in the direction of dystopia and armageddon, and the powerful elites in the driver’s seat have made it abundantly clear that they have no intention of swerving from this trajectory. So what can we do? What is the one exit we have allowed ourselves?
Read MoreCapitalism Is Double-Billing Us: We Pay From Our Wallets Only for Our Future to Be Stolen From Us
by The CNCL Team | Oct 27, 2020 | Human Society | 0
There can be no escape from the death wish of capitalism without recognising that death wish, and then demanding and working for wholesale change.
Read MoreYou Can Have Peace Or The US Empire. You Can’t Have Both.
by The CNCL Team | Sep 2, 2020 | Human Society | 0
A nation that cannot exist without ceaseless war is not actually a nation at all: it’s an ongoing military operation with some suburbs and schools mixed in. This is true of Israel, and on a larger scale it is true of the globe-spanning, empire-like oligarchic world order that is loosely centralized around the United States.
Read MoreSociety Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
by The CNCL Team | Aug 9, 2020 | Personal | 0
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.
Read MoreThe End of Kings
by The CNCL Team | Aug 1, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The end of kings is near. It is time to scale decentralized trust networks to empower humanity to work, trade, and govern directly with each other without the need for rulers to rule us.
Read MoreAs US Eviction Crisis Looms, Remember That Poverty Is Weaponized By The Elite
by The CNCL Team | Jul 28, 2020 | Human Society | 0
CNBC News reports that Americans are looking at the possibility of up to 40 million evictions in the coming months as unemployment payments expire and a federal moratorium on evictions runs out.
Read MoreThe Sky Is Falling – Yes – No
by Robert Hunziker | Jul 18, 2020 | Earth | 0
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society.
Read MoreEarthBeat Podcast w/ Paris Williams: Transforming Uncertainty into Action
by Paris Williams | Jul 17, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Issac Oron and Sina Saffari from the Earth Beat Community in New Zealand engage in dialogue with Dr Paris Williams, psychologist and integral thinker, exploring a number of themes related to personal, collective and global wellbeing,
Read MoreFractal Agent Smiths
by The CNCL Team | Jul 7, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious. Like a fractal, you see this same struggle to expand consciousness happening on every level of humanity no matter how far out or how far in you zoom the camera. But within every possible recursion of the fractal, you’ve got forces opposing that expansion of consciousness.
Read MoreRevolution needs to create an Evolution
by Brad Dixon | Jun 25, 2020 | Human Society | 0
If the gap between those who have and those who do not grows to a breaking point, then revolt and revolution will take place. History has shown us that. Let’s all work together to evolve in a more peaceful manner.
Read MoreThe Human Metamorphosis: Paris Williams
by Paris Williams | Jun 20, 2020 | Personal | 0
This week we have a discussion with Dr Paris Williams. We discuss the transition that took Paris from world champion hang gliding athlete, to the depths of an intense personal inner transformation and awakening that led him on a journey of exploration of the human condition.
Read MoreMaking Sense of the Downward Spiral: Daniel Schmachtenberger
by The CNCL Team | Jun 20, 2020 | Human Society | 0
America’s cities are ablaze with rioting after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This comes in the heightened tensions of the coronavirus crisis. How can we make sense of this spiral of polarisation, and are bad actors taking advantage of the situation? This is a conversation with evolutionary philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger hosted by Rebel Wisdoom.
Read MoreI Reckon We Can Win This Thing
by The CNCL Team | Jun 15, 2020 | Human Society | 0
All in all, I reckon we can win this thing. Not the anti-policing protests necessarily; I don’t quite know what will happen with those in the long run. I mean the whole thing. Winning it all. Actually getting out from underneath the elite and beginning to function as a healthy organism on this planet.
Read MoreGrieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
by The CNCL Team | May 25, 2020 | Personal | 0
Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Read MoreFrom Emergency to Emergence
by The CNCL Team | May 11, 2020 | Human Society | 0
The COVID-19 crisis has imposed immense hardship on billions of people. But that hardship is dwarfed by what lies ahead if we continue on our current path. Now we must step up to prevent the collapse of the regenerative systems by which Earth creates and maintains the conditions we need to exist.
Read MoreThe Coronation
by Charles Eisenstein | Apr 16, 2020 | Human Society | 0
“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 whether there might be something we’ve seen during this break in the routines that we want to bring into the future.”
Read MoreErosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming
by The CNCL Team | Apr 9, 2020 | Personal | 0
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world.
Read MoreAfter the Coronavirus, Two Sharply Divergent Paths on Climate
by The CNCL Team | Apr 9, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Some policy experts are optimistic that victory over the coronavirus will instill greater appreciation for what government, science, and business can do to tackle climate change. But others believe the economic damage caused by the virus will set back climate efforts for years to come.
Read MoreFrom What Is to What If
by The CNCL Team | Mar 21, 2020 | Human Society | 0
Written by Rob Hopkins / Kosmos The following is an excerpt from From What Is to What If:...
Read MoreBook Review – “The Enlightened Society” by John L. Hill
by Brad Dixon | Mar 14, 2020 | Human Society | 0
John Lawrence Hill is an author and law professor who is very concerned about international human rights. This book is a manifest on how humankind can save ourselves while in turn saving the planet. He has since written other books that have a similar theme – The Case for Vegetarianism: Philosophy for a Small Planet (1996), and The Political Centrist (2009).
Read More3 Activists Share Indigenous Wisdom for Facing Today’s Challenges
by The CNCL Team | Dec 26, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Indigenous Peoples are often on the frontlines of environmental justice movements. As original caretakers of the land, these communities have not only sought to protect their own livelihoods, but also to preserve humanity’s harmony with the Earth.
Read MoreWhy Everything is Fu**ed
by The CNCL Team | Dec 23, 2019 | Human Society | 0
We all slid out of the womb an itty bitty helpless information sponge into a world full of mentally ill giants who couldn’t wait to fill our tiny skulls with all of their inner demons. And now everything, understandably, is fucked.
Read MoreCan the Principle of ‘Emergence’ Offer Hope for Humanity?
by The CNCL Team | Dec 14, 2019 | Human Society | 0
This is a beautiful talk on emergence, its significance and fundamental importance for humanity.
Read MoreA Physicist’s Message for Humanity
by The CNCL Team | Dec 10, 2019 | Personal | 0
In this thoughtful video, physicist Peter Russell pays tribute to kindness, suggesting that the world would be a drastically different place if we all showed one another more consideration
Read MoreTed Talk: How to Transform Apocalypse Fatigue Into Action on Global Warming
by The CNCL Team | Dec 9, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Ted Talk by Per Espen Stoknes The biggest obstacle to dealing with climate disruptions lies...
Read MoreBook Review: “The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success”
by Robert Hunziker | Nov 16, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Written by Robert Hunziker Climate change is a nagging issue for many people because it is so big,...
Read MoreItaly Becomes First Country to Require Climate Change Studies in Schools
by The CNCL Team | Nov 6, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Italy is the first country to incorporate climate change and sustainable development into its national curriculum.
Read MoreCollapse: The Only Realistic Scenario? (A. Keller)
by The CNCL Team | Oct 6, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Arther Keller, rocket scientist and ecology consultant, gives us an eye opening description of complex system collapse, illuminating the possible futures of the human social system.
Read MoreNoam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
by The CNCL Team | Sep 30, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Climate change is by far the most serious crisis facing the world today. At stake is the future of civilization as we know it. In this interview, Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin discuss the challenges ahead and what needs to be done.
Read MoreYouth vs. Apocalypse: An Allied Approach to Climate Justice Leadership
by The CNCL Team | Sep 30, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Isha Clarke of Youth vs. Apocalypse discusses how their group is redesigning the climate justice movement to centralize justice and provide a platform for youth of color and indigenous youth. YvA is doing deep work to build local, national and global coalitions with other youth movements and adult allies.
Read MoreTo Confront Climate Change, We Need an Ecological Democracy
by The CNCL Team | Sep 26, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Marit Hammond, a lecturer in environmental politics at Keele University in the U.K., advocates for the necessity of an “ecological democracy” in order to meet the climate emergency urgently and sustainably. In this interview, Hammond offers insights on what this new form of democracy would look like and how we can get there.
Read MoreThe Climate Strikes Are About So Much More Than Green Colonialism
by The CNCL Team | Sep 23, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Solutions to the environmental crisis won’t come in the shape of a battery – they come in the shape of justice, reparations and equity.
Read MoreEmpires Are a Secret until They Start Falling
by The CNCL Team | Sep 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Many are predicting that the U.S. Empire is on the verge of collapse. While the dangers of this are extreme, this also presents us with the opportunity to make great strides towards a world free of oppression, violence, and poverty.
Read MoreEcological Trauma and Common Addiction
by The CNCL Team | Sep 9, 2019 | Personal | 0
Rex Weyler defines “ecological trauma” as the experience of witnessing – consciously or not – the pervasive abuse and destruction of the natural world, of which we are a part, and for which we have a primal affinity.
Read MoreUN Climate Report Compares Vegan Diet to Others
by The CNCL Team | Aug 22, 2019 | Human Society | 0
A recent United Nations IPCC report on climate compared a vegan diet to others. Here are the results and the response by Trevor Noah of The Daily Show and others.
Read MoreThe Perpetual Illusion of Change
by The CNCL Team | Aug 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
While the prevailing global collective dig their heels deeper into sustaining the status quo, many others are becoming activists, enraged by the infinite list of atrocities being committed around the globe. As seemingly more people fight for change these days, notable progress continues to evade us.
Read MoreOp-Ed: Are We Really so Different from Other Species?
by The CNCL Team | Aug 8, 2019 | Earthlings | 0
As a biologist who documents new species and behavior in remote places, from sinkholes in Venezuela to treetops in Borneo, I see abundant signs that the future is grim. A recent United Nations report confirmed the terrible truth: One million species on Earth are threatened with extinction.
Read MorePaul Hawken: ‘We Need to Be Fierce and Fearless’ to Reverse Climate Change
by The CNCL Team | Aug 5, 2019 | Earth | 0
Social entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken is a leading voice in the environmental movement. His visionary ideas emphasize changing the relationship between business and the Earth. As humanity seeks to rise to the challenge of our time, Hawken provides a refreshingly positive and comprehensive approach to global warming solutions…Bioneers sat down with Paul Hawken to learn more about his work and his plan for helping build a more connected world.
Read MoreWhy Some People, But Not Others, Choose A Plant-Based Diet
by The CNCL Team | Aug 1, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Transitioning to a plant-based diet can be an easy choice for some people, while others may either find it extremely difficult or resist it vehemently. Understanding why some people are amenable to a veg*n diet but others are not is extremely valuable, not just for animal advocates who are trying to reduce animal suffering, but also for companies that are trying to facilitate a shift toward plant-based diets by offering plant-based alternatives to animal products.
Read MoreThe Great Reckoning
by The CNCL Team | Aug 1, 2019 | Human Society | 0
In essence, the postmodern age was ending, though few seemed to know it — with elites, in particular, largely oblivious to what was occurring. What would replace postmodernity in a planet heading for ruin remained to be seen.
Read MoreWild Imagination
by The CNCL Team | Jul 29, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
One antidote to the colonization of the mind is the wild imagination. Cultivating the extraordinary human capacity to imagine alternate possibilities is, I believe, at least part of an essential navigation strategy for our times of multiple crises and ecological peril.
Read MoreNew Library of Fossil Fuel Industry Documents Provide Key Ingredient Against Climate Denial and Inaction
by The CNCL Team | Jul 22, 2019 | Human Society | 0
The University of California at San Francisco’s new fossil fuel industry documents library offers a tool to help the legal, political and public education fight against climate change and the companies responsible.
Read MoreWorking for Peace in a Violent World
by The CNCL Team | Jul 18, 2019 | Human Society | 0
This is a reminder that we can benefit from becoming more deeply involved in life, not to brood or fixate on our roles in violent systems but to care for and connect with each other. We cannot escape the destructiveness of the world, but we need not be crushed by it. Even as the peace virus tests and pushes us toward our edges, it can empower us and help us heal.
Read MoreHidden Plastics: Glitter Gum and the Air We Breathe
by The CNCL Team | Jul 10, 2019 | Human Society | 0
The plastic contamination of the natural world flows from three main sources: complacency, apathy and ignorance, a poisonous trinity that is itself the result of a narrow and destructive approach to living. While there are signs of a shift in attitudes among many people, resistance to changing the lifestyle habits that feed the environmental crisis, is strong.
Read MoreChoosing Hope
by The CNCL Team | Jun 24, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Sean Casleton interviews Noam Chomsky / Boston Review Noam Chomsky and Scott Casleton discuss socialism, anarchism, and the fight for progress in U.S. politics today. There is always the temptation to think of one’s own era of...
Read MoreIn the Face of Climate Collapse, We Need the Wisdom of Elders
by The CNCL Team | Jun 24, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Written by Barbara Cecil / TruthOut I am steadily on the lookout for leveraging forces that can lift us out of heavy stuck loops, onto new ground. Often these are less obvious elements. One that has been underestimated is the...
Read MoreWe Are Witnessing Imperial Decline in an Age of Planetary Decline
by The CNCL Team | Jun 19, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Never before in history has the rise and decline of imperial powers taken place in the context of the decline of the planet itself. Trump change, the rising political temperature stirred by the growing populist right, is taking place in the context of (and, worse yet, aiding and abetting) record global temperatures, the melting of ice across the planet, the rise of sea levels and the future drowning of coastlines (and cities), the creation of yet more refugees, the increasing fierceness of fires and droughts, and the intensification of storms. In the midst of it all, an almost unimaginable wave of extinctions is occurring, with a possible million plant and animal species, some crucial to human existence, already on the verge of departure.
Read MoreWhy Do We Think We Own The Earth?
by The CNCL Team | Jun 10, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
For far too long, humanity has regarded itself as ‘outside’ Nature. We think we are exceptional. Our ‘intelligence’ rarely produces long-lasting benefits to anything but ourselves. There is only one thing that makes humanity truly exceptional; our desire to own and control everything, partnered by our horrible ability to destroy what we try to control.
Read MoreStriking for System Change, Not Climate Change
by Jo Wills | Jun 4, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Students have been striking all over New Zealand. Much has been said about the rights and wrongs of them skipping school to march the streets. From my experience, these students understand more about the problem and solutions we’re facing than many of the adults making decisions on their behalf. I spoke to a few of them at the strike to get their thoughts on what the government should be doing to take action against climate change and what they were doing individually.
Read MoreArctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
by The CNCL Team | Jun 4, 2019 | Earth | 0
With the ongoing acceleration of the climate crisis, it is clear that even if we believe the best-case scenarios, governments are not reacting according to the gravity of the situation at hand. Each one of us, knowing what we now know, must take full responsibility for preparing ourselves for the adaptation required to live on this increasingly warming, melting world as civilizations and societies continue to disintegrate.
Read MoreWhere Are We Heading?
by Brad Dixon | Jun 3, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
Someone intelligent once said – “we move towards what we focus on”. Every now and then it’s important we question as a society what are we focusing on, and therefore moving towards?
Read MoreA New Republic of the Heart
by The CNCL Team | Jun 2, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
My hope is that you will choose to enter this conversation. For me it is a first step in a process of building connections, conversations, relationships, and communities that both nourish and embody the higher potentials of our species, and that will provide a solid integral foundation on which we may begin to build together, in the clear, pure words of Charles Eisenstein, “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
Read MoreGlobal Rebellion to Save Our Planet
by The CNCL Team | May 31, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
“The greatest threat to the Earth is thinking someone else will save it.” The responsibility is ours; politicians and governments are complacent, dishonest and buried in the ideology of the past. Despite repeated warnings nothing substantial has been done and time is running out. No one else is going to Save Our Planet; a global movement of civil disobedience is needed to force governments to take the radical action needed.
Read MoreEverything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
by The CNCL Team | May 29, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari’s questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.
Read MoreThis Memorial Day, Let’s Learn From Our Mistakes and End Illegal War
by The CNCL Team | May 27, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Those of us who have realized the truth of war’s futility and waste, however, and have rejected the mythology of necessity and purpose, will not support the continued exploitation and commercialization of the memory of those sacrificed in war and the suffering of their families to enhance consumerism and profit.
Read MoreReclaim Our Power or Face Extinction: The Choice Is Ours
by Paris Williams | May 26, 2019 | Human Society, Personal | 0
Human society is heading towards disaster on many levels, and our “leaders” are certainly not leading. The only thing likely to save humanity is if “We the people” reclaim our power and lead the charge towards a truly sustainable society.
Read More“They’ll Give Me a Detention but It’ll Be Worth It”—A Climate Scientist Interviews His Climate Striking Daughter
by The CNCL Team | May 25, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
The new generation has new heroes and they aren’t us oldies who have failed to act. It seems the next generation is more globally minded and ecologically aware than any previous one. Maybe we should listen to their wisdom.
Read MoreClimate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist
by The CNCL Team | May 24, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.
Read MoreMeat Reduction And Vegan Promotion: A Report
by The CNCL Team | May 23, 2019 | Earthlings, Human Society | 0
A study with the “largest sample of meat reducers, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans in any research project to date” looks at the dynamics of meat reduction campaigns and campaigns promoting veganism.
Read MoreEarth Emotions: New Words for a New World
by The CNCL Team | May 22, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
An interview with Glenn Albrecht about his new book and solastalgia. “Glenn Albrecht’s vision is at once realistic and contagiously optimistic. Through unique language, he names the heart-breaking loss we feel as nature gets pummeled. Yet our senses open and our smiles re-emerge as we recognize that such destruction can be the catalyst for the evolution of human consciousness. This book is a manifesto for a new Earth.” —Peter Kahn, author of Technological Nature
Read MoreWhy Billionaires Have No Right to Their Wealth
by The CNCL Team | May 22, 2019 | Human Society | 0
Not a day goes by without a new article with details on the unprecedented growth in income inequality and its dire consequences. Something is missing, though. No one is proposing measures that would take away wealth from the 600 or so U.S. billionaires and the 20,000 families with hundreds of millions. Why not?
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