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France Caves To Farmers As Ireland ‘Solidarity’ Protests Kick Off
France Caves To Farmers As Ireland ‘Solidarity’ Protests Kick Off Two of France’s main farming unions on Thursday agreed to suspend protests and lift road blockades across the country after the government announced measures the deemed “tangible progress” in the ongoing revolt against EU ‘climate-driven’ initiatives designed to wean society off of evil, non-bug-based, carbon-emitting food while […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LV–Expediting ‘Collapse’: Financialisation of Our Economic System
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LV Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Expediting ‘Collapse’: Financialisation of Our Economic System A very short contemplation that deviates from the ‘series’ I’ve been writing on several psychological mechanisms that impact our cognitions regarding overshoot and collapse. This is a brief comment (with a slight edit) on an article by The Honest […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIV–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Five — Justification Hypothesis
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIV June 18, 2022 (original posting date) Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Five — Justification Hypothesis This contemplation is the fifth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
A small and deceptive word
A small and deceptive word In a previous post I referred to two “highly seductive and misunderstood words.” I dealt with one of these several years ago when considering the growing number of things that humans can do in theory but can no longer do in practice. This applied to highly expensive projects like sending humans to the moon […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII June 11, 2022 (original posting date) Santorini, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance This contemplation is the fourth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII June 7, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink This contemplation is the third part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIX–Sometimes People Don’t Want to Hear the Truth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIX Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Sometimes People Don’t Want to Hear the Truth Today’s Contemplation has been prompted by a request to engage someone in ‘an academic lesson’ regarding the maladaptation of pursuing complex technologies in an attempt to ‘solve’ our ‘problem’ of climate change. As Frederick Nietzsche has been […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII–We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry To be or not to be, that is the question… Prince Hamlet’s well-known soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is apropos to a question I have been pondering: should we shut down immediately the […]
Europe Erupts In Widespread Farmer Protests As Revolt Against ‘Green’ Policies Intensifies
Europe Erupts In Widespread Farmer Protests As Revolt Against ‘Green’ Policies Intensifies Farmers in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Romania, and other countries across Europe are protesting radical leftist governments by obstructing major transport networks with tractors. This widespread populist movement is sweeping Europe at a time when over-regulation, taxes, and the climate change […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII–Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII April 13, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief Today’s contemplation has been prompted by an article by ecologist and educator Richard Heinberg (see link below). Infinite growth. Finite planet. What could possibly go wrong? As our awareness of the various existential […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI–Preparing For Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI April 4, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Preparing For Collapse A contemplation prompted by a couple of posts I read early this morning. One was a list of actionable ideas for preparing for Peak Oil and the other an article on the mainstreaming of ‘Doomsday Prepping’. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLV–Chasing Maladaptive Strategies
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLV March 24, 2022 (original posting date) Knossos, Greece (1988) Photo by author Chasing Maladaptive Strategies Today’s very short contemplation was in response to a post I was asked to comment upon that calls for sociopolitical ‘leadership’ to ‘tackle’ natural disasters that have been linked to the climate crisis. I believe that most […]
“Dangerous Game”: Chevron Warns California That Anti-Petrol Policies Could Result In Gas Price Spikes, Shortages
“Dangerous Game”: Chevron Warns California That Anti-Petrol Policies Could Result In Gas Price Spikes, Shortages Chevron is warning the state of California that its climate policies have consequences: namely, that the price of gas is going to continue to rise. Calling the state’s policies a “dangerous game”, it was reported by Bloomberg this week that Chevron is […]
