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Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different, Part 2 January 4, 2023 (original posting date) Going to ‘try’ and take a bit of a break from my self-indulgent Contemplation posts and specifically the energy series I began (see here for Part 1, Part 2). I do attempt to take time to reflect upon and do […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVIII–Collapse: Just Like Boiling A Frog
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVIII January 2, 2023 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Collapse: Just Like Boiling A Frog As I continue to work on my multipart contemplation regarding our energy future (Part 1; Part 2), thought I would throw out this ‘brief’ one that shares my comment on the most recent […]
Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different…
Today’s Contemplation: And Now For Something Completely Different… January 1, 2023 (original posting date) A corner of our property after a typical February snowstorm. As I work upon the multi-part series regarding my thoughts on our energy future, thought I would throw together something a little different for this initial contemplation of 2023. My journey […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVII–Limitless, ‘Clean’ Energy: More Magical Thinking
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVII December 29, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Limitless, ‘Clean’ Energy: More Magical Thinking A brief contemplation that shares my comment on the latest post by The Honest Sorcerer regarding the recent fusion energy ‘breakthrough’ that has been making the rounds on many media sites. My current […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVI–Energy Future, Part 2: Competing Polities and Geopolitical Stress
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVI December 28, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 2: Competing Polities and Geopolitical Stress Part 2 of my multi-part contemplation on our energy future. It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. -various attributions (e.g., Niels Bohr, Samuel Goldwyn, Yogi Berra, Mark Twain, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXV–Energy Future, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXV December 21, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 1 A short introductory contemplation to a multipart one on our energy future[1]. It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. -various attributions (e.g., Niels Bohr, Yogi Berra, Mark Twain) Energy[2]. It is the fundamental […]
Taps running dry have become part of daily life in South Africa’s biggest city
Taps running dry have become part of daily life in South Africa’s biggest city Residents of the township of Soweto, South Africa, queue for water on March 16, 2024 as Johannesburg experiences severe water shortages. Jerome Delay/AP JohannesburgCNN — When Duane Riley turns on his taps, they shudder loudly from the air flowing through the pipes. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIV–Chasing Perpetual Growth On a Finite Planet
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIV December 16, 2022 (original posting date) Chitcen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Chasing Perpetual Growth On a Finite Planet A very brief contemplation (as I work on some longer ones) that shares my response to the following billboard that was shared on the Degrowth Facebook group I am a member of: […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIII–Ruling Class Endgame For Everything: Wealth Generation and Wealth Extraction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIII December 9, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Ruling Class Endgame For Everything: Wealth Generation and Wealth Extraction Todays’ contemplation has been once again prompted by a great article posted by The Honest Sorcerer, this time the second part of some observations regarding the complex and evolving […]
Collapse & Camping Skills?
Collapse & Camping Skills? Why I Talk About Operational Capabilities of Our Communities Imagine a world where the grating buzz of civilization has quieted, where the conveniences we once took for granted—clean running water at the turn of a handle, shelves stocked with food at every corner, the comforting glow of streetlights guiding our way […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII–Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII December 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice Todays’ contemplation has been prompted by the usual shenanigans of government. In this case, the government of my home province of Ontario, Canada. As regular readers of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI–Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI December 4, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity Another very brief contemplation prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest writing regarding our energy predicament. What you have described so well is perhaps the conundrum faced by every complex society throughout history: diminishing […]
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us?
What Happens When There’s Nobody Left to Save Us? Passively waiting for centralized powers to “save us” from their own excesses is not a solution. It’s no exaggeration to say that our way of life depends on somebody somewhere saving us from the excesses that are the bedrock of our way of life. What excesses, you […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX–Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX November 28, 2023 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction This contemplation shares a response of mine to another within an ongoing discussion regarding a Facebook post by Clean Energy Canada[1] highlighting one of Canada’s major energy companies’ offshore wind farm projects. This ‘think tank’ […]
