There is no problem. As far as I can see, ecological concerns about overpopulation are both overblown and dangerous. Despite this, many environmental organisations continue to stress that there are too many of us, most prominently the Global Footprint Network, which publishes the Ecological Footprint Calculator (which has its own

I don't usually buy books from Amazon, but I did for Silvia Federici's _Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons_ - tempted by the low price and cheap next-day delivery. It's ironic because Amazon represents the complete opposite of everything Federici

There is a resonance dilemma in environmental activism, where NGOs are inner-city progressive suit-wearers, and have a lack of connection with the majority of citizens in the suburbs or regions. We need to find ways of bridging this difference.

Democracy is under threat by a range of "diabolical" actors and forces... Bächtiger & Dryzek call for the construction of a deliberative culture with a range of institutions forming a cohesive deliberative system.

Today’s subject of late capitalism is the “debtor-adddict”, coerced into wage-labour to pay off debts and rents, with little more to comfort them than consumption outside the home and technology within it.

I've finished setting this blog up with fed.brid.gy, so now all future posts will be visible on Bluesky at @journal.thomashowell.au. It will just be a very simple post with a link to the original page on this websites. Comments won't carry across.

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I think it's fair enough to say that the profession of journalism is a bit of a mess at the moment. From Herman and Chomsky's analysis of the five "filters" of journalism (see _Manufacturing Consent_ , first chapter publicly available here and highly recommended) to

"The perpetual treadmill of a capitalist economy that cannot cease without collapsing is now the treadmill on which every being and activity is placed, and the horizons of all other meanings and purposes shrink accordingly." - Wendy Brown