Fred Guerin
On Possible Paths to the Future
What’s needed now is neither fatalism nor utopianism, but a suite of practical pathways for families and communities that lead to a real...
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Fred Guerin
- May 25, 2020
- 5 min
Fatalism: The Default Doctrine in an Age of Climate Catastrophe
Our present neoliberal capitalist world leaders counsel us to passively submit to what they say over and over is ‘the best of all...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On the Paradox of Consumption In an Age of Climate Warming
The Wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On Animal Welfare and Animal Rights
"Other animals, which, on account of their interests having been neglected by the insensibility of the ancient jurists, stand degraded...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
On Philosophy, Politics and Climate Change
What to do about climate change is not simply a question for activists, scientists, politicians and economists—it’s a question for...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 3 min
On Reclaiming the Canadian Commons
What is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. (Aristotle, Politics) The word ‘common’ means “together in one”. In...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Consumption is the Root Problem
There is an inescapable logic regarding the relation between consumption, energy and climate warming that it seems we humans would rather...
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Fred Guerin
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Meetings on the Road to the Climate Warming Apocalypse
Ever wonder why multi-billion dollar oil and gas companies pay little in the way of royalties and are subsidzed by the federal government...
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Fred Guerin
- Aug 13, 2019
- 8 min
We Must End Neoliberalism, or Neoliberalism Will End Us
In his seminal political essay, “The Power of the Powerless,” the dissident playwright and philosopher Vaclav Havel argued that becoming...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
Industry Propaganda On Toxic Tailings Ponds
This is how propaganda works: present facts selectively so that they take on the appearance of objective information. The video below,...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
Neoliberal Capitalism v. Planet Earth
Capitalism configures our culture, our language, our perceptions, our habits of mind and our experience in both general and specific...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 4 min
A Car-Less World
I know this might sound like blasphemy coming from someone who supports alternative energy options. But the reality is that we are never...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
SCC Decision: Polluters Must Pay for Clean-up
February 4, 2019 Yesterday the SCC decided on a case that will have profound legal and environmental implications. They ruled that those...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 2 min
On Resistance to and Denial of the Science of Climate Change
"Remember and then forget again. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this this odd...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 3 min
Is A 'Green' Capitalism Possible?
I have my doubts about whether eco-capitalism or environmental capitalism is possible or even desirable. An authentically green approach...
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Fred Guerin
- Jun 24, 2019
- 9 min
The Human Being as Unwitting Research Object for Industrial Chemistry
In the popular science-fiction film The Matrix has its origin in a provocative philosophical thought-experiment called the “brain in a...
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