Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics

These included a prohibition on privatized water extraction; land redistribution and other policies to create pathways for “re-ruralization”; “more explicit and systemic disaster planning”; a Green New Deal that would also transform agricultural and water practices; as well as being ready in moments of crisis to move radical ideas from politically

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As our day-to-day lives become so encumbered by expensive necessities, housing insecurity, and looming natural disasters, the question I consistently ask is: Where is lifestyle media? It’s pondering whether burger rankings are still important; it’s accepting defeat and painting a picture of the future of food that relies on lab meat fantasies. Chan... See more

Its relentless trajectory: To bring it on, all we have to do is, um, nothing. Its overwhelming complexity: To fix it, not only do we have to do something, but, as Naomi Klein has said, we pretty much have to “change everything” about how our economy and society operates. Its asymmetries of power: Those of us most historically responsible for causin

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what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New

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