We will be so much better off psychologically when we give up our dreams of mastery
and come back to living within nature.
2010
Naturalism as Mastery?
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Traditional environmentalists’ “humility” is overrated: we have all too often made the world’s
poor and powerless pay for our environmental progress.
2010
Humility in a Climate Age
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Can the ambitious new environmental geo-engineering be suffused with a humble
awareness of our place within nature’s complexity?
2010
Introduction to Special Section
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For the scientifically well-informed, there’s a seriously bleak quality in the air around global warming and other environmental threats. To avert the multiple foreseen catastrophes will require heroic measures. But which measures have a chance of working?
2010
Immigration: Don’t Let “Reform” Be an Excuse for Increased Repression
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. . . it relies on the idea of providing temporary worker visas to lower-skilled immigrants who are apparently expected to send their money home, providing American farmers, agribusiness, and other employers with a source of cheap labor that can depress the wages of other laborers.
2010
Liberals and Progressives Need a New Strategy in the Obama Years
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Yet what the critics maintain is that Obama and congressional Democrats, inheriting an economy and political system in crisis after decades of ideological Republican policies committed to downsizing government and serving the tax-cutting interests of the rich and the corporate elites, blew a unique opportunity to teach Americans a new way of thinking about politics and economy.
2010
The Politics of Holding on to Health Care Reform
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The Left has been left whimpering that health care reform did not go far enough, that we should adopt “Medicare for All.” But the claim that this bill is middle-of-the-road or too pragmatic has not found any significant public sentiment and fails in the face of the financial pressure on government.
2010
The Future of God — and Secularism
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The future of God depends on the future of secularism. Most people will hear in that sentiment a prediction about the growth of secularism: If secularism grows, belief in God will commensurately shrink. If secularism stagnates, the world will continue to believe in God in 2100.
2010
A Universe Struggling to Become Aware?
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Without the compassion that arises when we realize our nonduality — empathy not only with other humans but with the planet — it becomes increasingly likely that civilization as we know it will not survive the next few centuries.