Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This
Our Entire Civilization Is Structured Around Keeping Us From Realizing We Can Do This Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many — they are few! ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley […]
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DELPHINE LEE/YES! MAGAZINE What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like? A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it. As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for […]
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification
FAQs from Episodes 1-25 of The Great Simplification
The Dawn of the Apocalypse
The Dawn of the Apocalypse We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction. Our Climate Future – by Mr. Fish Subscribe now The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal […]
Russia And China Officially Announce A “New Global Reserve Currency”
Russia And China Officially Announce A “New Global Reserve Currency” And once again, as happens often with consequential news in the United States and the West, no one has noticed and no one seems to care. If you’ve blinked over the last month, you may have missed it… China and Russia are taking their shot […]
Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist
Carbon-Reduction Plans Rely on Tech That Doesn’t Exist Instead of scaling up renewable energy, researchers promote unproved ideas Credit: Katie Louise Thomas At last year’s Glasgow COP26 meetings on the climate crisis, U.S. envoy and former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry stated that solutions to the climate crisis will involve “technologies that we don’t […]
Panama’s Inflation Upheaval Causing Food, Fuel Shortages
Panama’s Inflation Upheaval Causing Food, Fuel Shortages It started as a teacher’s strike to protest the high cost of gas, but it’s now the largest civil unrest in Panama since the end of dictator Manuel Noriega’s reign in 1989. With fiery roadblocks disrupting commerce and causing shortages of food, fuel and other supplies, the Panamanian government has […]
Running on Empty, Part V
Running on Empty, Part V When the Dollar is Broken, What Does One Do to Not Go Broke? (Guest Post) Gary Brode of Deep Knowledge Investing was kind enough to share my series Running on Empty with his readers. This afternoon I’ve invited him to offer his thoughts for my readers, focusing on the implications that […]
IEA Chief: Europe Must Cut Gas Usage 20% To Survive Winter
IEA Chief: Europe Must Cut Gas Usage 20% To Survive Winter After calling on all member states to reduce gas consumption by 15% in the face of the threat of a complete Russian gas cutoff, the IEA says the European Union will need to cut even more in order to get through the winter. “Even […]
The Great Rehash, Part One: The Best and the Brightest
The Great Rehash, Part One: The Best and the Brightest July seems to be a good time for explosions, and not just in Fourth of July fireworks displays in the US. Already this month, a bomb blew up a controversial monument in rural Georgia, while on the other side of the world in Sri Lanka […]
#234. Britain on the brink
#234. Britain on the brink THE PRICE OF EXTREMISM Whether the country’s leaders know it or not, the United Kingdom is now at serious risk of economic collapse. We must hope that this doesn’t happen. If it does, it will take the form of a sharp fall in the value of Sterling which, in these circumstances, […]
#235. The affordability crisis
#235. The affordability crisis WHAT’S REALLY HAPPENING What might be called the ‘consensus narrative of the moment’ is that our near-term economic prospects depend on the ability of central banks to tame inflation without tipping the economy into a severe recession. There are numerous complications, of course, but this is the gist of the story. What these […]
The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory
The Great Reset: An Alternate Theory In my last post I speculated that covid was a plan orchestrated by the heads of the important central banks to provide cover for printing a gazillion dollars to head off an imminent economic collapse, and to implement tools like digital currencies and lockdown mechanisms that will be useful for maintaining social order […]
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: Who is responsible?
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: Who is responsible? Dire Evolutionary Timeline by Blu This is an essay from reader wis.dom project who describes his painful personal journey of connecting dots to achieve awareness of our overshoot predicament. I was born in 1969, at a time when everything still seemed possible. On July 20, two people walked on the […]
The Anthropocene is a Joke
Stuart Gleave / Getty THE ANTHROPOCENE IS A JOKE On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch. Humans are now living in a new geological epoch of our own making: the Anthropocene. Or so we’re told. Whereas some epochs in Earth history stretch more than 40 million years, this new chapter started maybe […]
