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On Ukraine and the failed Pax Capitalis

On Ukraine and the failed Pax Capitalis - Local Futures blog

During the previous three decades, a particularly new and ahistorical view of the world has arisen in the modern, “civilized,” capitalist West. Famously elaborated by an advisor to Ronald Reagan and later repeated by both liberal and conservative politicians, theorists, […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Energy, Free Trade and Globalization, War Tagged With: corporations, culture, democracy, globalization, technology, Ukraine, urbanization

The world’s food systems are in crisis: big agribusiness is to blame

The world's food systems are in crisis - blog Local Futures

In 2017, the people of Zagora, Morocco, took to the streets in what became known as the ‘thirst revolution’. They were demanding safe drinking water and an end to the excessive use of water by big agricultural companies. In an […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Climate Change, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Local food Tagged With: agriculture, banks, climate change, corporations, farming, industrial agriculture, local food, South

Not on the agenda in Glasgow: real climate action

What can we expect to come out of the Glasgow COP meetings?  If the pattern established by previous COPs is repeated, not much.  Dire statistics will be cited, pleas for action will be heard, earnest pronouncements will be made, non-binding […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Localization Tagged With: agriculture, climate change, corporations, globalization, happiness, health, industrial agriculture, local food, localization

Source Temple and the Great Reset

I recently visited a spiritual community in Brazil called Source Temple. Drawing primarily on the teachings of Adi Da and A Course in Miracles, it comprises about thirty people from about ten countries, mostly Brazil and South America, ranging in […]

Filed Under: Community, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Inner transformation, Localization Tagged With: community, degrowth, economic growth, economics, globalization, localization, South, trade agreements

Trade treaties and the climate emergency

The chickens have come home to roost for Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Kenney bet around $1.5 billion of public money on a very risky prospect – the highly controversial Keystone XL pipeline. U.S. President Joe Biden, to the surprise of […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: climate change, corporate control, corporations, free trade, South, trade agreements

How the World Bank helped re-establish colonial plantations

In October 2020, a group of 79 Kenyans filed a lawsuit in a UK court against one of the world’s largest plantation companies, Camelia Plc. They say the company is responsible for the killings, rapes and other abuses that its […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Development, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization Tagged With: agriculture, corporations, farming, global food, industrial agriculture, local food

COVID-19: an opportunity for localization

Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was believed that globalisation would lead to development and prosperity. However, the whole scenario has changed now with almost every part of the world under some form of lockdown, which has […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Health Tagged With: economics, farming, global food, globalization, happiness, health, local food

What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics

This blog is also available in Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish. The crises of the modern world verify what indigenous cultures have always known: that all phenomena are inextricably interconnected. As the Amazon – one of the […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Coronavirus, Environment, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, development, economics, globalization, indigenous, localization, trade agreements

In Peru, ancestral values shine during COVID-19 crisis

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peruvians are facing exceptional challenges as individuals and communities throughout the country confront job losses and food shortages in addition to the virus itself. However, these difficult times have an upside, in that […]

Filed Under: Community, Coronavirus, Environment, Food and Farming, Free Trade and Globalization, Indigenous worldview Tagged With: agriculture, community, culture, farming, indigenous, local food, trade agreements

A wakeup call for local resilience

The lead article in a recent edition of my hometown newspaper highlighted the efforts of a local teen and a sewing business to create 1,000 masks for area hospitals. While this is a wonderful development, it shouldn’t have come to […]

Filed Under: Community, Coronavirus, Free Trade and Globalization, Health, Localization Tagged With: globalization, health, localization

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