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The Resourceism Declaration | A Vision for a Moneyless, Sustainable, and Just World

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  Resourceism  abolishes money, profit, and debt. Introduction: Why a New System Is Necessary Every generation inherits a defining question. For us, it is this:  how long can humanity survive under economic systems that exploit people, strip the planet, and hollow out democracy? Capitalism promised prosperity, yet its endless pursuit of growth on a finite planet has created grotesque inequality. The richest 1% control more than half of all wealth, while billions lack secure access to food, water, and shelter. Socialism, while more equitable, has often remained tethered to money and industrial exploitation, redistributing wealth without questioning the framework that creates scarcity in the first place. Meanwhile, the ecological bill is coming due. Forests burn, glaciers collapse, oceans acidify, species vanish. Climate instability is no longer a prediction but a lived reality. Our economies consume far more than the Earth can regenerate, year after year. At the same time,...
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When Life Becomes a Market: Why Capitalism Cannot Sustain the Living World

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  “The foundation of capitalism is the belief that nature exists to be owned, consumed, and sold, that life itself is a market, and value begins only when something can be priced.” —  Resourceism: A Philosophy for a Living Planet The Great Misunderstanding Every civilization tells a story about its relationship to the world that sustains it. Ours tells a story of ownership. We speak of “natural resources,” “real estate,” and “property rights,” as though the earth were a ledger and life itself a transaction. What began as a system of exchange became a theology of control. The foundation of capitalism is not innovation or freedom. It is the belief that the living world exists to be owned, consumed, and sold. This belief is so deeply woven into our language that few recognize it as ideology. To the capitalist mind, the river is not a river; it is water rights. The tree is not a being; it is board feet. The cow is not life; it is beef. This is the great misunderstanding of our age...
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