Oleh: Joseph Parampathu. Teks aslinya berjudul “How the State Enables Ecocide?”, diterjemahkan oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Pada tahun pertama penguncian yang diguncang oleh berbagai kerusuhan sosial, cuaca ekstrem, dan ketidakjelasan pemerintah, menjadikan ketidakmampuan dan keengganan kelas penguasa untuk melakukan perubahan menjadi sesuatu yang tidak dapat terbantahkan lagi. Tidak akan ada perbaikan maupun pertanggungjawaban. Komoditisasi binatang misalnya…

Joseph Parampathu. Originale: How the State Enables Ecocide. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. In questo primo anno di quarantena costante, turbato ovunque da disordini sociali, la tropicalizzazione del clima e l’inettitudine diffusa degli stati, è chiara l’incapacità totale, la riluttanza, delle classi di governo ad operare un qualche cambiamento sostanziale. Nessun aiuto per le persone, nessuna…

In the first year of constant quarantine, rocked by worldwide social unrest, extreme tropical weather, and widespread government ineptitude, the complete inability and unwillingness of the ruling classes to make any substantive changes is clear. There will not be any relief and there is no reckoning. Commoditizing living animals has created the perfect conditions for…

Gettare il seme dell’infrastruttura ecologica universale Di Evan Pierce. Originale pubblicato il 13 aprile 2020 con il titolo Beyond UBI: Sowing the Seeds of Universal Ecological Infrastructure. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Ultimamente, si parla tanto di reddito di base universale (RBU), che servirebbe a riequilibrare le disuguaglianze, affrontare la crescente precarietà data dalla disoccupazione tecnologica,…

[Listen to a Mutual Exchange Radio Podcast discussing this essay here] Ideas related to Universal Basic Income (UBI) have been gaining some traction lately with the goals of mitigating inequality, addressing the increasing precarity of technological unemployment, and attempting to ensure that people can meet their basic needs. As an anarchist seeking freedom for all,…

In June of 2014 the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) detailed an audacious proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. The usual fall-out unfolded. Agency favorable Democrats and environmentalists smiled while Industry favorable Republicans, suits and the national conservative right cried: “Green is the new Red!” Now a regime change…

Of all the complex environmental problems the world faces today, the elephant in the room is climate change. If current predictions are correct, our posterity faces famine and drought, land loss, natural disasters, political instability and (if the hippies at the Pentagon are correct) increased warfare as resources are strained. So, how do we address the…

As a boy in the southeast African nation of Malawi, William Kamkwamba harnessed the wind.  In 2002, drought and famine — common problems in one of the world’s least-developed countries — forced the boy and his family to forage for food and water as thousands starved. Kamkwamba, however, knew if he could build a windmill…