by DGR News Service | Jul 11, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
Editor’s note: The dominant global culture (“industrial civilization”) is built on resource extraction and forced conversion of habitat to exclusive human use, and this has serious consequences. Both global warming and the ongoing mass extermination...
by DGR News Service | Jul 1, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Mining & Drilling
Editor’s note: The shock doctrine is a concept proposed by Canadian journalist Naomi Klein and is outlined in her book, The Shock Doctrine. The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, published in 2007. Its central proposition is that the capitalist markets take advantage...
by DGR News Service | May 20, 2022 | Mining & Drilling, NEWS
Editor’s note: As global warming and ecological collapse accelerates, governments and corporations are unwilling to invest in real solutions. Instead, public fear is increasingly being weaponized to mobilize public subsidies for the so-called “green...
by DGR News Service | Apr 22, 2022 | Mining & Drilling, NEWS, Repression at Home
Editor’s note: Monday’s article covered the murder of environmentalists—at least 207 were killed last year. These killings are the extreme end of a spectrum of violence and repression used against environmentalists and land defenders. Another weapon on...
by DGR News Service | Apr 15, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Human Supremacy
Biocentrism (from Greek βίος bios, “life” and κέντρον kentron, “center”) is an ethical point of view that extends inherent value to all living things. It is an understanding of how the earth works, particularly as it relates to its biosphere or...
by DGR News Service | Mar 14, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Building Alternatives, Culture of Resistance, Mining & Drilling, The Problem: Civilization
Editor’s Note: Unquestioned beliefs are the real authorities of any culture, and one of the central authorities in the dominant, globalizing culture is that technological progress is an unmitigated good. We call this “the lie of the techno-fix.” The...
