SOCIAL CRITICISM REVIEW

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Progress and its critics

Science in a free society: open up to criticism

Rationalization: our guiding principle has gone astray "Modernity is the 'disenchantment of the world' through the powerful agencies of science and capitalism."

Addicted to technology More things do not make people happier

Technology and its social side-effects

Can we - should we - compensate our loss of community with virtual community?

"Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it." - Karl Kraus

Debt boomerang of the Third World: deforestation, drugs, aids, refugees, and global conflict

Crisis of capitalism: the counterproductive end of economic growth
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." - Edward Abbey

Crisis of capitalism: corporations rule the world

Sustainable development Environmental destruction is an act of unparalleled criminality

Environmental degradation and overpopulation

Deforestation, extinction, and climate change join in downward spiral

Save the oceans

Poverty, illness, war, exclusion - children are always the first victims

Corruption obstructs Third World development

Coping with conflict: from violence to tolerance

Individualism and the loss of community

Reconcile individual liberty with responsibility toward the community

Media terror: the truth is squeezed between advertising money and public relations Freedom of speech only if it is profitable

Media terror: advertising consumerism

Advertise tobacco and fight a war on drugs? Smoking the number 1 killer in developed countries

Hormone disruptors: many chemicals endanger reproduction and development

Sustainable agriculture

Animal misuse "The fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as our resources, here for us." - Tom Regan

Sanctions against Iraq: more than a million children died already "Economic sanctions may have contributed to more deaths during the post-Cold War era than all the weapons of mass destruction throughout history." - John & Karl Mueller in Foreign Affairs

Balkan crisis New world order at a crossroads

Russia: what next?

Japan's paralyzed bureaucratic system breeds economic crisis and resurgent nationalism

India: is it progress when the people and the environment are victimized?

China's rapid economic growth causes environmental crisis

Human rights in China Since the one-child policy of 1979, more than 25 million girls are missing as a result of sex-selective abortion, infanticide and neglect.

From genetic engineering to eugenics: many small rights make a big wrong