Estudios sugieren que regenerar al suelo dándole la espalda a la agricultura industrial tiene la llave para jaquear al cambio climático. La cosa está que arde. Cada uno de los últimos 14 meses ha roto el récord de temperatura global. La cubierta de hielo en el mar...
Media reporting that heralds the success of global poverty reduction strategies making claims such as “the number of people living in extreme poverty ($1.90 per person per day) has tumbled by half in two decades” is still very much routine. However,...
According to Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, global subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, both indirect and direct, amounted in 2015 to $5.3 trillion dollars. Or to frame it another way, 6.5% of global GDP. Roughly...
What happens when too much of the academic world operates as if it was in a fantasy novel? We’ve all heard about “ivory towers” and the profound disconnect many people feel when they enter the classroom — only to find that their teachers are living in a parallel...
Neoliberalism encourages us to treat every aspect of our lives as if it were on sale in a marketplace: is it an anti-spiritual project? “It’s the economy stupid!” Politicians exhort us to focus our minds on our material priorities, when really they are stealing our...
