Nonviolence is an important element of sustainability for three main reasons. One that nonviolent actions, including Australia’s Franklin River campaign, anti-nuclear blockades at Roxby Downs and Jabiluka, northern NSW old-growth forest blockades, climate actions against coal seam gas extraction, have long been effectively used by environmentalists, conservationists, preservationists to protect...

Climate change complicates political violence while producing new forms and scales of it. This has led the climate movement to fail come terms with both nonviolence as a tactic resistance. The article begins by counterposing consensus for only achieving systemic change. It then moves beyond that drawing on Andreas Malm’s Marxist response, Bruno Latour’s claim puts us in situation war, critique ...

During World War II, 36 conscientious objectors participated in a study of human starvation conducted by Ancel Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, as it was later known, was a grueling study meant to gain insight into the physical and psychologic effects of semistarvation and the problem of refeeding civilians who had been starved during ...