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With 1.5°C Goal ‘Currently Not Plausible,’ Study Calls for Focus on Deep Social Change
With 1.5°C Goal ‘Currently Not Plausible,’ Study Calls for Focus on Deep Social Change “In order to be equipped for a warmer world, we have to anticipate changes, get the affected parties on board, and take advantage of local knowledge,” said one researcher. Scientists at the University of Hamburg in Germany argued Wednesday that meeting […]
It Sucks Being Stuck in a Failing Civilization
It Sucks Being Stuck in a Failing Civilization Photo by Conor Samuel on Unsplash Industrial civilization is slowly failing and it kind a sucks being stuck with it. Over the past couple of weeks and months I’ve been increasingly posting about the failure of western civilization, but let’s not forget that the West is but a part of […]
Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why, and How.”
Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why, and How.”
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
How the modern fantasy of an eternal civilization warps our view of technology
How the modern fantasy of an eternal civilization warps our view of technology What historians call the Golden Age of Greece—which ran from about 500 to 300 BC—spawned the foundational Western philosophers Plato and Aristotle; mathematicians such as Euclid whose geometry is still taught in schools today; classical Greek dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, […]
We’re Coming Closer to Limits of Adaptation
We’re Coming Closer to Limits of Adaptation
World Population Day Presentation: Dr. William Rees
World Population Day Presentation: Dr. William Rees
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities
Hope, on the Balance of Probabilities my now-slightly-outdated map of worldviews about collapse; right-click and open in a new tab to see it full-sized It’s interesting to listen to social philosopher Daniel Schmachtenberger try to reconcile his assessment of the state of the world with his vehement insistence that we have to try as hard […]
Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century
Extreme heat could put 40% of land vertebrates in peril by end of century Study shows ‘disastrous consequences for wildlife’ if human-caused emissions push global temperatures up 4.4C A female desert bighorn sheep in the Joshua Tree National Park, California. Such areas would be among the worse impacted if global emissions are not cut. Photograph: […]
World Without End: A Necessary Graphic Novel
WORLD WITHOUT END: A NECESSARY GRAPHIC NOVEL “Our house is burning and we are looking the other way.” This sentence was pronounced during the fourth Earth Summit in 2002, and has left its mark on more than one mind. It recently made its come back in a new form with “don’t look up,” used in the eponymous […]
You’re Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence.
You’re Not a Fearmonger. You Have Sentinel Intelligence. Some of us are cursed to hear the future. Fortis Design You’ve probably heard about Helen of Troy. She’s blamed for starting the Trojan War. Not many people remember Cassandra. She predicted it. In Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon, you get Cassandra’s full story. In some ways, the Trojan War is […]
Finding our center in moral courage and compassion
Finding our center in moral courage and compassion What gets me through the day New Raven graphic drawn by my daughter, Erika Mazza-Smith So much of what I write in this journal is about the deep and heavy challenges facing our world. I want to share a few thoughts about what keeps me going through […]
The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History”
The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History” People on the other side of the planet are dropping dead from starvation right now, but most people don’t even realize that this is happening. Unfortunately, most people just assume that everything is fine and dandy. If you are one […]
