Not exact matches
The exhibition, curated by Kaytie Johnson, highlights
radical,
alternative, and socially - engaged practices as responses to and reflections on the devastating and far - reaching effects of social, political, and
economic events of the decade.
Paul Driessen, author of «Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death,» explains the vast difference between Real Sustainability, which implies wisely using our resources and always looking to innovate, and Politicized Sustainability, a
radical policy that focuses on focuses on ridding the world of fossil fuels, regardless of any social,
economic, environmental, or human costs of doing so — and regardless of whether supposed
alternatives really are eco-friendly and sustainable.
So long as we live under this corporate capitalist system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction, to keep pouring on the gas instead of slamming on the brakes, and that the only
alternative — impossible as this may seem right now — is to overthrow this global
economic system and all of the governments of the 1 % that prop it up and replace them with a global
economic democracy, a
radical bottom - up political democracy, an eco-socialist civilization.
Henry apparently finds that option too
radical, and therefore unrealistic (to be sure, while it would be ideal for firms to develop
alternative methods of charging for their services that eliminate the billable hour, the fact remains that law is a business and
alternative methods of billing have to make
economic sense given the nature of practice areas such as litigation where one's adversary has the power to determine how much time one will have to spend on a case).