The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe
- 04 September 2023With the advent of global warming and the nuclear arms race, humans are rapidly approaching a moment of truth. Technologically supreme, they manifest their dreams and nightmares in the real world...
States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Populations in Check
- 03 September 2023This book is a brilliant and comprehensive analysis of the Covid-19 crisis and the worldwide states of siege instituted under its cover. Reading it, one cannot help but shake one’s head in outrage...
Western Tales About China Are Just Tales
- 06 August 2023Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. China, we are told, spies on us...
Wild New World
- 21 July 2023Dan Flores is a historian who has been studying the stormy relationship between humans and the family of life for many years. He calls this subject Big History. Wild New World is a fascinating and...
Getting Out of Line
- 18 July 2023A Guide for Teachers Redefining Themselves and Their Profession by Caren Black This book identifies the classroom methodologies, curriculum and personal professional growth that are essential for...
Woke is Fascist
- 06 June 2023I have sometimes been criticised for describing the society being ushered in since March 2020 as “fascist”. That word has become so misunderstood and misapplied, associated with superficial...
Introduction to Pacifism as Pathology
- 05 May 2023Preface to the 2007 Edition of Ward Churchill’s Pacifism as Pathology This extraordinarily important book cuts to the heart of one of the central reasons movements to bring about social and...
The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point
- 21 April 2023The Collapse of Antiquity , the sequel to Michael’s “ …and forgive them their debts, ” is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of...
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
- 02 April 2023Ruins and relics of long dead civilizations, now overtaken by vines of verdant chaos, or buried under the shifting sands of time, hold a certain morbid fascination for us – these once great,...
The Science of Evil: A Personal Review of Political Ponerology
- 28 March 2023A new edition of Political Ponerology , by Andrew M. Łobaczewski, edited by Harrison Koehli, is now available on Amazon. 1 This strange and provocative book argues that totalitarianism is the result...
Locust
- 12 January 2023Early white settlers on the high plains of the western U.S. were always bummed out when colossal swarms of locusts dropped by for lunch. The sky would darken, and the land would be filled with the...
Finding the Mother Tree
- 09 November 2022Suzanne Simard wrote an unforgettable book, Finding the Mother Tree . She was born and raised in the rainforests of British Columbia, and is now a professor of forest ecology. Her grandfather was a...
The Passenger Pigeon
- 21 April 2022Once upon a time, North America was home to an estimated five to eight billion passenger pigeons. They may have been the most numerous bird species in the world. My father was in diapers when the...
The REAL Anthony Fauci with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
- 30 November 2021Joining us today to talk about his new bestselling book, The Real Anthony Fauci , is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. of ChildrensHealthDefense.org .
We are Strip-Mining Life While We Drink “Bright Green Lies”
- 22 March 2021Industrial civilization is strip-mining Life. Human economies are suffocating our remaining natural living systems. As a result, wildlife and insect populations are plummeting, while humans, pets,...
Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross
- 09 January 2021Update: The greatest dangers we now face put our preparedness, self-reliance and self-sufficiency to the test. They require our grasp of the whole rather than parts if we are to comprehend not what...
William Catton's Overshoot: How Today's Hgher Education Shapes Perspective
- 11 July 2020I've been reading books on “the Problem of Civilization” for several years now. I'm constantly seeking to refine my conceptualization of the way humans interact with each other and their...
Overshoot
- 10 July 2020William Catton’s book, Overshoot, describes the process by which most modern societies have achieved overshoot — a population in excess of the permanent carrying capacity of the habitat. It examines...
Ishmael
- 27 June 2020Daniel Quinn’s book Ishmael is certainly the best selling environmental novel of all time. Over the last 20 years, it has blown hundreds of thousands of minds by presenting an exceedingly important...
Limits to Growth
- 21 June 2020The Club of Rome was formed in 1968. It included big shots and experts from 25 nations. Social and environmental challenges had grown beyond the ability of individual countries to manage. It was...
Civilization and Insanity
- 15 June 2020Are we living in an insanity epidemic? Yes indeed, we certainly are, according to The Invisible Plague by Dr. Edwin Fuller Torrey and Judy Miller. This book provides an illuminating history of...
Apocalyptic Planet
- 24 May 2020Craig Childs is a nature writer and globetrotting adventure hog. He’s been thinking a lot about apocalypse lately. It’s hard not to. The jungle drums are pounding out a growing stream of warnings —...
You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?
- 24 December 2019Once in a blue moon an indispensable book comes out making a clear case for sanity in what is now a post-MAD world. That’s the responsibility carried by “ The (Real) Revolution in Military Affairs...
The Ten Rules of Hate
- 30 November 2018Image: Hate Inc. by Matt Taibbi Pick up any major newspaper, or turn on any network television news broadcast. The political orientation won’t matter. It could be Fox or MSNBC, the Washington Post...
California: A Fire Survey
- 27 November 2018Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Stephen Pyne is among the world’s foremost experts on fire, and the author of many books. California: A Fire Surveypresents a blazing discussion on...
How Did Things Get To Be This Way?
- 13 June 2018Image: Wikimedia Commons Ojibway elder Basil Johnston said that a good life is impossible for people disconnected from their history. We must know who we are. The venerable historian William Cronon...
Sustainability Primer
- 26 August 2017Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable I was recently interviewed via email by a group of ecologists in France. I’m sharing it with English-speaking folks because it provides an easy map...
Sea of Slaughter
- 21 July 2017Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Farley Mowat (1921–2014) was a famous Canadian nature writer, a fire-breathing critic of modernity’s war on wildness. He spent much of his life...
Industrial Civilization’s Death Wish
- 16 May 2017Several years ago I wrote a Hip Fish column applying the biblical proverb, “There is a way that seems right, but the end thereof is death” to industrial civilization. Now, as commitment to the...
“J” – For Junk Economics – A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception By Michael Hudson
- 12 May 2017A Book Review by Peter Koenig | May 12, 2017 | The Saker The author, Michael Hudson, is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial...
Indian Running
- 04 May 2017Image: Pixabay CCO Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable As I learned more about long distance running, I kept discovering fascinating tidbits about persistence hunting. Aborigines...
Conceptualizing Cooperatives as a Challenge to Capitalist Thinking
- 23 December 2016As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, and a world beyond capitalism becomes a possibility contemplated by increasing numbers of people, finding a path forward becomes an ever more urgent...
Coming Home to the Pleistocene
- 25 October 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Paul Shepard (1925-1996) was a human ecologist and a turbocharged original thinker who spent his life trying to understand (a) how ordinary animals...
A Short History of Progress
- 25 October 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Every year, Canadians eagerly huddle around their radios to listen to the Massey Lectures, broadcast by the CBC. For the 2004 season, Ronald Wright...
A Sand County Almanac
- 25 October 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Aldo Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, is near the top of many lists of environmental classics. It was published in 1949, and has sold over...
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil
- 23 October 2016“In the author’s opinion, Ponerology reveals itself to be a new branch of science born out of historical need and the most recent accomplishments of medicine and psychology. In light of objective...
How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth
- 23 October 2016With a title like that, you’d expect ‘How the rich are destroying the earth’ to be a marxist polemic. It’s not. At least, not entirely. Simply put, the rich are destroying the earth because in the...
A Language Older Than Words
- 19 October 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Derrick Jensen’s book, A Language Older Than Words, is a landmark in environmental writing. A standard formula for eco-books is to describe the...
The Myth of Human Supremacy
- 01 June 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable When an unlucky person has been swept away by the brainwashing of a wacko cult, concerned friends or family members sometimes seek the assistance...
Hierarchy in the Forest
- 27 May 2016Book review by Richard Reese | What Is Sustainable Christopher Boehm is a professor of anthropology and director of the Jane Goodall Research Center at the University of California. He has read...
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