Learning to Love the Dark
I leave my front door late one evening and walk along the driveway we share with our neighbours towards the narrow unlit footpath that leads…… Read More » Disconnected Pathocracy
All of Steve Taylor’s books are fascinating, beautifully written and deal with complex themes which he has the great gift to explain very clearly. His…… Read More » Authors: Christopher M. Aanstoos, John H. Buchanan
Reviewer: Gunnel Minett
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Rethinking Environment
Modern science promotes itself as being based on facts rather than assumptions. This view, however, tends to avoid the fact that what we call modern…… Read More » Rethinking Environment
Modern science promotes itself as being based on facts rather than assumptions. This view, however, tends to avoid the fact that what we call modern…… Read More » Towards a Life Economy
Writing as a former insider economic hitman (EHM) and initially at great peril to his life when the first edition came out (many publishers refused…… Read More » The Rise of a New Regime of Technocratic Power?
‘With this reorientation from knowledge to power, it is no longer enough to automate information flows about us; the goal now is to automate us.’…… Read More » Leadership by Example
It won’t have escaped your notice that Robert F Kennedy Jr has recently declared his intention to run for President on the Democratic ticket in…… Read More » Soil, Soul and Society
Albert Schweitzer once said that there are three ways of changing the world: the first is by example, the second is by example, and the…… Read More » Towards Human 2.0?
I reviewed Patrick Wood’s previous book, Technocracy and the Hard Road to World Order, two years ago (PE 135, pp. 57-8) and have since been subscribing…… Read More » Authors: Jayati Ghosh, Johan Rockström, Jørgen Randers, Owen Gaffney
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Category: Futures Studies Economics Ecology
Systems Change
This new book has been released on the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth, which I myself read in the 1970s. Like the original…… Read More »