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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse It’s been a few months since I last posted a Contemplation. There are a variety of reasons for this. I’ve been ‘distracted’ by the preparations in my gardens for the upcoming growing season. The unseasonably warm weather here north of Toronto allowed me to get outside […]
A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history
A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history The ruins of the Colosseum in Rome. Credit: Livioandronico2013. CC BY-SA 4.0. The Pax Romana—the 200-year “golden age” of the Roman Empire—was a marvel of diversity, connectivity, and unchallenged hegemony. By the middle of the second century AD, imperial Rome ruled territory across three different continents. […]
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame
New Developments and Accepting Our Predicaments Without Blame Forest clear cut along Chattooga Ridge Rd. in South Carolina Today’s eclectic article has to do with new developments that have popped up recently, reiterating issues I have brought up previously, sometimes repeatedly. One of these things has to do with who and what we are as a species. This differs […]
The Radical Step
THE RADICAL STEP BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It’s time to take the most radical step you’ve ever taken in your life. It’s time to build the community you need to survive. […]
Living with/in Fear
Living with/in Fear There are more like you than you think. Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor / Unsplash “I think 3C is being hopeful and conservative.” – Ruth Cerezo-Mota an expert in climate modelling at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Sign up for Collapse 2050 The unspoken truth about humanity’s frightening future. Subscribe No […]
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar… and mull over survival. I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically different trajectories since first meeting back in the ’80s. Dan built a truly impressive […]
Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire
Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire Reuters Smoke rises from Alberta wildfire near TeePee Creek Thousands of Canadians have been ordered to leave their homes in Fort Nelson, British Columbia due to the threat of a wildfire. The blaze began on Friday night and was described by officials as “exhibiting extreme […]
The Decay of Everyday Life
The Decay of Everyday Life So where does this leave us? We’re on our own. This month I’ve described what can be summarized as The Decay of Everyday Life: the erosion of the fundamental elements of everyday life: work, opportunity, social mobility, security and well-being, which includes civility, conviviality and a functional, competent social-political order. In other […]
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planet World is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns Climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target Global heating is […]
10 Premises Behind Collapse 2050
10 Premises Behind Collapse 2050 What does “collapse” mean? What will the downfall of civilization look like? What am I suggesting people do? What if I’m wrong? Photo by Yaoqi / Unsplash People look at my username on Twitter or title of this website and jump to conclusions about the way I think. Some ‘get’ me straight […]
Culling for Climate
Culling for Climate Climate research and its misanthropic sect It’s the smell Over the weekend, Bill McGuire, an Emeritus Professor of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London, set X/Twitter afire with the following Tweet, which foresees the “culling of the human population” as the “only realistic” way to address climate change — a […]
Musings on the Nature of Technology
Musings on the Nature of Technology A picture taken during the trip (own photo) Recently I have been on a four-day hiking trip, completing another 80 km (~50 mile) stretch of the 1171 km National Blue Trail running across my tiny country. This gave me plenty of time to tune into and ponder on the many […]
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing In the early days on the farm, I adopted a calendar based sowing schedule based on the idea that cool season crops should be sowed in March and warm season ones in September. The passing years have demonstrated that approach is overly mechanical given the variability of seasons from year to […]
Links of the Month: May 2024
Links of the Month: May 2024 Public Service Announcement: If reading my links of the month is unbearably depressing for you, just skip down to the very bottom of this post and at least read Lyz Lenz’s little story on Mothering. Everything else here will probably be the same next month, anyway. cartoon by Michael Leunig No, […]
Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn
Medicine shortages in England ‘beyond critical’, pharmacists warn Survey has revealed challenges faced by pharmacists and risk of harm to patients as key drugs are unavailable ‘We’re firefighting in the background’: the pharmacists coping with record drug shortages Drug shortages in England are now at such critical levels that patients are at risk of immediate harm and […]
