The following article is an excerpt from Ecosprinter’s 2021 printed edition on a just transition. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. At its very core, anthropogenic climate change and the way it is affecting humanity, is ultimately an issue of unprecedented injustice. The stories we…
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Just transition only with social justice
The following article is an excerpt from Ecosprinter’s 2021 printed edition on a just transition. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. The policies that we implement in the coming years will irreversibly determine the survival of thousands of species, including humans, and the planet as…
Why you rebel
The following article is an excerpt from Ecosprinter’s 2021 printed edition on a just transition. We decided to bring you the articles from this edition in a digital form as well. Times are dire. Last year, Australia lost a fifth of its trees and billions of animals to wildfires. The fires were so massive that…
Environmental costs of the Syrian Civil War
The devastating civil war in Syria entered its tenth year. A decade of war has caused one of the biggest humanitarian crises in the world of an estimated death toll of 384,000-593,100 people as of December 2020. Besides, the displacement of approximately 12.7 million people, with nearly 6.1 million displaced internally struggling to survive. The ongoing long war has…
Finding consolation in nature
William Wordsworth (1770-1850), a romantic poet, suffered a lot from identity crises during his adolescent years. The deep grief he experienced after the early loss of parents, the pressure he was exposed to by his relatives and “the discriminating powers of the mind” * —thanks to the artifacts of civilization, made him crave for freedom…
No New Rules – In thoughts of the people in Moria 2.0
Over the past year, there has been more talk than ever about the “crazy times” we live in, and it seems that people are longing for something simpler or more predictable. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why we spend so much time thinking and debating about new rules and laws in the almost…
Diary of Palina – fighting for Belarus
I try to express myself, but there are so many thoughts that I can’t put them together. I just cry all day, crying out all the things that have accumulated over the past months. I cry and pray, even though I don’t believe in God in the accepted sense of this word. I pray that…
Economics Week III: Doughnut Economics – a way to rethink our economic model
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. One of the most important figures in economics and politics to this day is the GDP growth. We often hear politicians say that a country’s GDP needs to grow for the society to…
Economics Week II: Thinking about a post-growth economy – quality instead of quantity
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. Now more than ever we are facing a choice. We can either continue to operate within a system that keeps exploiting human and natural resources, thus inevitably leading to social upheaval and environmental…
Economics Week I: So what’s utility?
This article is part of the Economics Week series in which we explore flaws in and alternatives to our current economic system. The goal of economics is to improve the living conditions of people (Mankiw 2019). Hence, economics should focus on increasing human prosperity rather than simply increasing material consumption. Of course, material wealth strongly…