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Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

Fifth Estate Magazine, radical publishing since 1965

T. S. Eliot, somewhere in the Four Quartets, says, “hope would be hope for the wrong thing…” As the world careens towards a cliff, to use a cliché of contemporary conversations about a future that is increasingly the most urgent item on all agendas, hope for the wrong things springs eternal.

Murray Bookchin's critique of 'mystical' deep ecologists and his contribution to the development of a pro-working class environmentalism.

Bob Jensen has written a book with Wes Jackson titled An Inconvenient Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity.

Sustainability means living as nature lives. It means no depletion of the elements of the ecosystem humans have been treating as economic resources, and no waste. What we pursue is up that tree.

Spokane residents Robert and Anita Dygert-Gearheart have compiled information on climate and human-caused climate change into a curriculum “Wake Up World” they hope people in faith-based and non-faith-based groups will utilized to become more informed on climate challenges facing the planet.

As a young anti-war activist in the 1960s, I met older radical Ira Sandperl at the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, in California, which he had