Climate policies are devastating tribal people
A new report by Survival International highlights how tribal and indigenous peoples are suffering the consequences of global warming and climate forcing twice: once because of the climatic changes themselves; a second time because of climate policies. The report is called “The most inconvenient truth of all: climate change and indigenous people” (PDF), and discusses [...]
Low-tech is Part of the Sociological Imagination for the Age of Re-embodiments
While the challenge of disembodiment follows from the Neolithic Revolution and a fortiori the practice of metallurgy, it is a recent series of industrial revolutions that have perilously intensified it: At what rates of dis/embodiment are human societies –or some of their groups— willing to live in order to erect what kind of global civilization? [...]
