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Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a lucrative market has emerged for post-apocalyptic novels, […]
Marti’s Corner – 49
Marti’s Corner – 49 Hi Everyone, NOTES: * And…….just like that…….it’s cold. Okay, it’s not Indiana cold, just California cold. Even though we’ve had frost on the lawn, my tomatoes have not died yet. I have maybe 2 dozen green tomatoes and I’m just hoping they will ripen (at least blush so I can bring […]
The Anthropocene: Where On Earth Are We Going?
The Anthropocene: Where On Earth Are We Going?
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann
Life After Fossil Fuels | Alice Friedemann And why the climate change conversation isn’t helping A post-carbon world could be our opportunity to so better—and make the difficult transition much harder to swallow. That’s the message of Alice Friedemann on this week’s episode, author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation. The […]
China stockpiling food at historically high levels
China stockpiling food at historically high levels China is stockpiling food at historically high levels and now has more than half of the world’s maize and other grains. By mid-2022, the country is estimated to hold 69% of the world’s corn reserves, 60% of rice, and 51% of wheat. At the end of 2021, NIKKEI […]
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Tipping Point That Will Destroy the World
The Tipping Point That Will Destroy the World
It’s okay to look up
It’s okay to look up I am told I should look into filing a copyright claim against the Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, since I wrote a version of it in my 2015 book, The Consciousness of Sheep, and for exactly the same reason: “We’ve all seen this movie before: A giant asteroid is heading straight for […]
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age
Forecast 2022 — Dumpster Fire Blazing on the Frontier of a Dark Age If 2021 was the year of maximum corruption, political decadence, and mind-fuckery in US history, 2022 is looking like a convulsive snap-back to the harrowing rigors of reality, spiked with shocking losses, reckonings, and not a little retribution for the rogues and […]
Year of Darkness: The Climate Cataclysm of 536 You’ve Never Heard Of
Year of Darkness: The Climate Cataclysm of 536 You’ve Never Heard Of During 536 the world was beset by a long winter. Dubbed “the year of darkness” in the New Scientist , temperatures plummeted and the sun was dimmed by a vast fog which blocked its rays from hitting the earth during 24 hours a day over […]
Fourth Turning 2022 — Bad Moon Rising
FOURTH TURNING 2022 – BAD MOON RISING “Try to unlearn the obsessive fear of death (and the anxious quest for death avoidance) that pervades linear thinking in nearly every modern society. The ancients knew that, without periodic decay and death, nature cannot complete its full round of biological and social change. Without plant death, weeds […]
#BareShelvesBiden Trends As Alarming Number Of People Report Empty Stores
#BareShelvesBiden Trends As Alarming Number Of People Report Empty Stores Before Christmas eve, President Biden declared his administration’s efforts to eliminate supply-chain bottlenecks ahead of the holiday season had succeeded. Ten days into the new year, we can firmly say that is not the case. The hashtag “BareShelvesBiden” has been trending on Twitter for the last 24 hours. […]
Vaclav Smil: We Must Leave Growth Behind
Vaclav Smil: We Must Leave Growth Behind Illustration: Stevie Remsberg/Intelligencer. Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath On September 23, the United Nations opened its Climate Action Summit here in New York, three days after the Global Climate Strike, led by Greta Thunberg, swept through thousands of cities worldwide. To mark the occasion, Intelligencer will be publishing “State of the […]
Edible Oil Prices Hit Record High As Food Inflation Worries Persist
Edible Oil Prices Hit Record High As Food Inflation Worries Persist Edible oil prices continue to surge to record highs amid adverse weather conditions for the world’s oilseed growers, adding to food-inflation worries that will persist through 2022. Rapeseed and canola prices hit another record high on Friday after last year’s harvests in North America […]
