Category Archives: Politics

Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement

Posted on May 13, 2019 by

Hello again! This post about lessons we could learn from the 1970s Appropriate/Alternative Technology movement is derived from a presentation I gave at Helsinki Sustainability Science Days 2019, 9.5.2019. The entire presentation can be found here. The above presentation and … Continue reading →

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What climate strikers ought to know about our economic system

Posted on March 14, 2019 by

Dear participants of the climate strike and all the other friends of a livable future! First of all, I’d like to thank every single one of you for your work defending a future for all of us. In my eyes, … Continue reading →

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The possible anatomy of coming climate change trials

Posted on October 10, 2018 by

As I write these lines, we have an ever clearer understanding that 1) humanity is hurtling towards a disaster of unimaginable proportions, and 2) the responsibility for this entirely foreseeable disaster rests to a very large extent on a very … Continue reading →

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Finland is the land of personal freedom, and that’s why I love it

Posted on December 5, 2017 by

On December 6th 2017, Finland celebrates her centennial as an independent nation. Exactly one hundred years ago, the Finnish Parliament finally voted for the motion to sever all ties to the revolutionary Russian government and assume the highest legislative power … Continue reading →

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Power and the (European) anti-nuclear power movement

Posted on November 14, 2017 by

This post contains some thoughts about the history of the anti-nuclear movement and in particular the European anti-nuclear movement as a struggle for power and empowerment; it’s posted here for convenience and as a reference, and as a caution against … Continue reading →

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Mutually Assured Economic Destruction: the strongest weapon in the arsenal of the masses

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

I just understood something profound (to me, very likely not to most others) about Brexit and other supposedly “irrational” decisions by less well off voters. The standard middle-class liberal critique of these decisions almost inevitably includes wonderment why the voters … Continue reading →

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