Tag: book excerpt

  • Green growth repeats a bad story

    Green growth repeats a bad story

    Green growth, or green capitalism, is hailed as a novel, inventive solution to the climate crisis. But green growth assumes business as usual—a continuation of our current system based on continuous economic growth—except replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. We fear that green growth will also mean business as usual and continued enclosure, exploitation, imperialism…

  • Broken to serve

    Broken to serve

    In my mid-30s, two decades after the last time my father beat me, and two years after he died, I broke glass twice in one week. Once, for the first time in my life, in anger. On a September Saturday, atop a stepladder, I was scraping the peeling wood around our garage window, preparing it…