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Escalation: Recent Events Suggest Mounting Economic Danger
Escalation: Recent Events Suggest Mounting Economic Danger A common refrain from people who are critical of alternative economists is that we have been predicting crisis for so long that “eventually we will be right.” These are generally people who don’t understand the nature of economic decline – It’s like an avalanche that builds over time, […]
5 Reasons Not to Predict the End of the World
5 Reasons Not to Predict the End of the World “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.” — Haruki Murakami So you want to talk about the end of the world without sounding like a crank? Rule #1 should be: Don’t predict when it will happen. A lot […]
A Few of the Things We Can Do On the Way Down From Peak Humanity
Photo by Michiel Annaert on Unsplash A Few of the Things We Can Do On the Way Down From Peak Humanity I think we’re done. Well, almost. I saw the first movie The Matrix when it came out in theaters. I remember how they depicted the height of humanity in 1999. I remember how I felt watching the […]
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis Energy crises impact nearly every aspect of our lives, and that is particularly true of food markets, with food production next year expected to be severely threatened. About 70 percent of the cost of fertilizer production is solely the price of natural gas, and as the […]
HEAR What 5 New England Utility Execs Are WARNING | Power Outages This Winter
HEAR What 5 New England Utility Execs Are WARNING | Power Outages This Winter
How to be an urban fruit forager
Photo by Alex Ciobanu on Unsplash How to be an urban fruit forager Helena Martin co-founded the foraging platform, RipeNearMe. A Singapore native, her travels led her to Malaysia, Sydney, and ultimately Adelaide, South Australia. Here, Helena — a lifelong forager — shares tips to help other urbanites begin their own foresting journeys. My love affair with fruit goes back a […]
Selco: It CAN Happen to You and You CAN Survive It
Selco: It CAN Happen to You and You CAN Survive It It is good to research how other people went through hard times in order to be ready more for SHTF. And today, I have a reality check for you. The two biggest misconception or mistakes that can happen there are fact that you may […]
Before Winter Comes
Before Winter Comes I didn’t think it would be necessary for me to start talking about energy issues quite so soon. Granted, industrial civilization remains hopelessly dependent for its very survival on dwindling supplies of fossil fuels, which are being used up at breakneck paces to prop up the absurdly extravagant lifestyles of a handful […]
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: My state of mind
By wis.dom project: Regress in Progress: My state of mind 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 […]
Stone Age Economics, Marshall Sahlins (1972)
Stone Age Economics, Marshall Sahlins (1972) Beginning as a presentation in 1966, what Sahlins challenged was the historic prejudice which dismissed the rights and value of ‘undeveloped’ societies and their ‘state of nature’. Ramblinactivist’s ‘A Book in Five Minutes’: No.16, 20th August 2022 View the YouTube video of this post ‘A Book in Five Minutes’ Index ‘The […]
‘Worst Yet to Come’ as Global Civil Unrest Index Hits All-Time High
An opposition activist shouts slogans holding up bread as he protests along with others against rising living costs, at the entrance of the president’s office in Colombo on March 15, 2022. (Photo: Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images) ‘Worst Yet to Come’ as Global Civil Unrest Index Hits All-Time High “Over the coming months, governments […]
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain
This Winter, Collapse Is Coming to Britain Britain Is Standing at the Edge of Social Collapse’s Abyss — And It’s About to Jump Image via Mark Thompson on Twitter These days, my British friends ask me the same question, with the same faint tinge of terror in their voices. “So. How bad is it going to […]
Why are farmers in the Netherlands protesting?
Why are farmers in the Netherlands protesting? Blamed for much of the climate crisis, biodiversity decline, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, farmers and farming are at the centre of a worldwide debate which is only gaining heat. This argument has come to a head in the Netherlands, where farmers have been involved in high-conflict […]
Darker and Colder: Europeans Warned of ‘Unprecedented’ Power Failures This Winter
Darker and Colder: Europeans Warned of ‘Unprecedented’ Power Failures This Winter “Production of electricity cannot keep up with demand.” jonathanfilskov-photography via Getty Images Europeans are being warned of ‘unprecedented’ power failures this winter as the energy crisis brings a foreseeable future that will be colder and darker. “There is an increased risk of a lack […]
Where We’ll End Up Living as the Planet Burns
Where We’ll End Up Living as the Planet Burns While nations rally to reduce their carbon emissions, and try to adapt at-risk places to hotter conditions, there is an elephant in the room: for large portions of the world, local conditions are becoming too extreme and there is no way to adapt. People will have to […]
