Emancipating transformation: from controlling ‘the transition’ to culturing plural radical progress

摘要: Current global environmental policy reverberates with talk of a new “Anthropocene epoch” defined by “human domination”, in which “perfect storm” catastrophic threats is forcing singular “great transition” towards “planetary management”. Under growing “environmental authoritarianism”, democracy increasingly seen as “failure”, “luxury”, or even “an enemy nature”. If charge to be taken the “control variables Earth”, some say must “put on hold”. One way seeing this trend, that scientific and knowledges are becoming imprinted preoccupations incumbent power rhetorics control. political mood, it seems there ‘no alternative’ but compliance – irrational denial existential doom. Yet alternative ways address gravity current ecological social imperatives. It can recognised, for instance, democratic struggle principal means practices Sustainability were shaped first place. In view, concentrated fallacies control more problems than solutions. Here, history show greatest ongoing forms transformative progress (like release from colonialism, racism patriarchy), owe plural values unruly hope-inspired agonistic contention, single orderly technical “transitions” based formally-integrated science fear-driven structured