Ecology

How Accounting For War Became An Economic Tool

April 7, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Educate! Anti-capitalism, Ecology, Global Economy, Intemerate Accounting

In Aesop’s fable of the Fox and the Stork, the fox invites the stork to dinner and serves soup in a flat shallow dish — a vessel perfectly suited to a fox’s tongue, while inconvenient for a stork’s long bill. The stork goes hungry. When the stork returns the invitation, the soup arrives in a tall narrow jar that only a beak can reach. The fox goes hungry in turn. Each host has set the terms of the meal, and those terms happen to suit the host. There is a moment buried in the official record of the System of National Accounts revision process that has this quality.

Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record For Earliest Date

July 31, 2025 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Earth Overshoot Day, Ecology, Finite Resources

Earth Overshoot Day is the point in the year when human demand for materials obtained from nature exceeds what the Earth can naturally regenerate in one year. For 2025, Earth Overshoot Day fell on July 24, the earliest it has been since the event was first calculated in 2006. The Earth Overshoot Day was first launched in 2006 by Andrew Simms, an author, political economist and campaigner, in collaboration with Global Footprint Network, as reported by Sustainability Magazine. Since then, Earth Overshoot Day is calculated and announced annually. Since 2006, the date has come earlier and earlier, signaling just how rapidly human consumption habits are growing and stripping the planet of its resources.

Gendered Perspectives On The Global Resource Economy

March 6, 2025 Brianna Nicole Hernandez, Resilience. Strategize! Ecology, Environment, Extraction, Indigenous Communities

Extractive economies are deeply gendered, disproportionately harming women and Indigenous communities (mining, land dispossession, violence, health effects) while benefiting multinational corporations and financial markets (Altamirano-Jiménez, 2021). Women are often the first to experience land loss, pollution, and social upheaval, yet they are often sidelined in decision-making. The relationship between people and the planet is undeniably complex. Historically, it has been marred by narratives of domination and exploitation.

Towards Democratic And Ecological Cities

June 11, 2024 Yavor Tarinski, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cities, Democracy, Ecology, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Urban Design

Cities are an integral part of human history. With their creation a public space emerged, which allowed their inhabitants to experience true political freedom. The city gave birth to direct democracy and the concept of the polis – both based on the idea that citizens can and should collectively and equally self-manage their common urban life, in all its spheres. Such free cities networked with each other into democratic confederations. Their relation with the countryside was one of symbiosis and mutual aid. With the expansion of empires, nation-states and capitalism, cities were submitted to the paradigms of political oligarchy and unlimited economic expansion.

Ecological Economics: An Introduction

July 26, 2022 Ben Shread-Hewitt, Resilience. Create! Ecology, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Sustainability

Does it make economic sense to cut down a rainforest? What influence should trade have on social policy? How much is the future worth? Is all value equivalent? These are all questions common to ecological economics, a cross-disciplinary science that is attempting to reclaim the field of economics from flawed models and unscientific assumptions. An important act within itself, but one made integral as mainstream economics is driving the planet’s sixth mass extinction (Wagler). Economics is often defined as ‘the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy infinite desires’, but this seemingly impossible aim itself belies many unfounded assumptions. Why should we assume everyone’s desires are infinite, or why should we believe all economic ‘resources’ to be inherently scarce when it is often their economic allocation that creates scarcity?

What A Peaceful Build-Up That Evades Ecological Breakdown Would Look Like

October 5, 2021 Nina Koevoets, Waging Nonviolence. Create! climate crisis, Ecology, Pandemic, Peace

Sooner or later other events in this transition period that we’re in will also follow, to further increase the awareness of the seriousness of the climate crisis and possible extinction of our own species. But we have to act fast and get more people to join those already imagining and working on solutions. How can this happen? The first step is to understand the need for a cultural change, because the root cause of our dire current situation lies there. To be more specific: it lies in the unsustainable globalized Western culture. Therefore, changing course can only be achieved by a cultural transformation: we need to address our ways of thinking and change our habits and collective behavior — the way we organize ourselves as societies.

COVID-19 And Circuits Of Capital

April 5, 2020 By Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace, Monthly Review. Create! COVID-19, Ecology, Food and Agriculture, Globalization

COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is now officially a pandemic. As of late March, whole cities are sheltered in place and, one by one, hospitals are lighting up in medical gridlock brought about by surges in patients. China, its initial outbreak in contraction, presently breathes easier.1 South Korea and Singapore as well. Europe, especially Italy and Spain, but increasingly other countries, already bends under the weight of deaths still early in the outbreak. Latin America and Africa are only now beginning to accumulate cases, some countries preparing better than others. In the United States, a bellwether if only as the richest country in the history of the world, the near future looks bleak.

The Ecosocialist Solution To Ecological Catastrophe

February 28, 2020 Michael Löwy, Globalecosocialistnetwork.net Strategize! Climate Change, Ecology, Ideology, Socialism

The future of the planet, and thus of humanity, will be determined in the coming decades. Calculations by certain scientists as to scenarios for the year 2100 aren’t very useful for two reasons: A) scientific: considering all the retroactive effects impossible to calculate, it is very risky to make projections over a century.

Our World Is Now Only 8.6% Circular

January 24, 2020 Staff, Circle-economy.com Create! Ecology, Environment

The global economy is consuming 100 billion tonnes of materials a year for the first time ever, but the cycling rate of resources has gone into reverse. Today, Circle Economy launches the Circularity Gap Report 2020 in Davos. Our world is now only 8.6% circular. Of all the minerals, fossil fuels, metals and biomass that enter it each year just 8.6% are cycled back. This has fallen from 9.1% in the two years since our annual report was first launched in 2018.

Extinction Rebellion Target Institutions Funding Ecological Destruction In City Of London

October 15, 2019 Staff, Rebellion.earth Resist! Ecology, Extinction Rebellion, London, Reform

Extinction Rebellion this morning are disrupting the system bankrolling the environmental crisis. The day started at 7am at Bank Junction when they blocked routes that financial district workers take to work. The day of disruption, which will target financial institutions, seeks to highlight the far greater disruption faced by those living in the environments systematically being destroyed by UK backed companies. The ecological damage is global, and it is hitting the Global South now. Coal, gas and mineral extraction, intensive farming and logging are all supported by large scale investment from the City of London.

What Might Systems Change Look Like?

October 1, 2019 UK Youth Climate Coalition, Theecologist.org Strategize! Climate Change, Ecology, Environment

The UKYCC is back for another 'systems change' article - this week on degrowth. To understand what constitutes systems change, we need to first talk about what isn’t systems change. Have you ever heard of the three-legged stool of sustainability (also known as the three pillars of sustainability)? The three-legged stool is the most common model used when businesses and governments start thinking about social and environmental issues. The idea goes that if the legs on the stool - the economic, social and environmental realms of the world - are balanced, we are achieving a sustainable system.

The Liberatory Potential Of Local Action

September 23, 2019 Brian Tokar, The Great Transition Initiative Strategize! Ecology, Localism, Municipalism

We are seeing an inspiring resurgence of progressive action at the local level, even as reactionary nationalist movements in Europe and beyond seek to position themselves as the true voices of a renewed localism. What are the prospects for such locally centered political engagement in a time of rising political polarization and conflict? How can local action help advance personal liberation and social justice? More broadly, how can it further our goals for global transformation? The current upsurge of local action by both progressives and radical municipalists is fueled by several complementary impulses.

China And The Prospects For A Global Ecological Civilization

September 20, 2019 David Schwartzman, Climateandcapitalism.com Create! China, Climate Change, Ecology, New Economy

We now hear daily the news about the tariff conflict with the U.S. and the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. But there is a critically important question regarding China’s current and future global impact, that of its potential leadership towards a post capitalist future while confronting the climate crisis. In December 2016, President Xi Jinping called for the “building of socialist ecological civilization” for China, and “policies [that] contribute more to a greener China and global ecological security” (Xinhua, 2016).

Ecosystems And Ecological Breakdown

September 2, 2019 UK Youth Climate Coalition, Theecologist.org Educate! Climate Change, Ecology, Environment

The first of the 'system change' blog series from the UK Youth Climate Coalition. Ecosystems - defined as ‘all the living things in an area and the way they affect each other and the environment’ - are central to how the natural world functions. They depend on something referred to as ‘dynamic equilibrium’ for stability. That is to say, through constant rebalancing, a stable ecosystem can thrive. The threats to balance in an ecosystem may be a natural disaster or the spread of disease, for example...

Only Rebellion Will Prevent An Ecological Apocalypse

April 26, 2019 By George Monbiot, Portside.org Resist! Climate Change, Ecology, Extinction Rebellion

No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response. Had we put as much effort into preventing environmental catastrophe as we’ve spent on making excuses for inaction, we would have solved it by now. Everywhere I look, I see people engaged in furious attempts to fend off the moral challenge it presents. The commonest current excuse is this: “I bet those protesters have phones/go on holiday/wear leather shoes.” In other words, we won’t listen to anyone who is not living naked in a barrel, subsisting only on murky water. Of course, if you are living naked in a barrel we will dismiss you too, because you’re a hippie weirdo.

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