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New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire

New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire The reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire have remained a mystery for modern historians, just as for the Romans themselves. Yet, recent data from the Greenland ice core provide us with new data on collapse of the Empire, showing […]

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Five Things You Should Know About Collapse

Five Things You Should Know About Collapse The Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca was perhaps the first in history to identify and discuss collapse and to note that “the way to ruin is rapid.” From Seneca’s idea, Ugo Bardi coined the term “Seneca Effect” to describe all cases where things go bad fast and used […]

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New Rare Earth Resources: A Non-Solution For A Non-Problem

New Rare Earth Resources: A Non-Solution For A Non-Problem Above: the report on the “Financial Post” of April 13, 2018. The study that the report describes is not just a bad paper, but something highlighting the shortcomings of our whole society in understanding and managing mineral depletion. Any report on mineral availability that starts with […]

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The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation

The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation Ilaria Perissi and Nicola Calisi playing the fisherman and his wife in a theatrical piece shown in Florence in 2017. The piece was based on the story told below (text by Ugo Bardi). The origin of this story is told here. Once upon a time, […]

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Negative Emission Technologies: can we learn from the Ancient Egyptians how to manage the global commons?

Negative Emission Technologies: can we learn from the Ancient Egyptians how to manage the global commons? The ancient Egyptians knew how to manage the commons. A single central authority managed the Nile river, to make sure that everybody had enough water for their needs. Could we do the same for our atmospheric commons? Above, a […]

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The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions. How to destroy the world’s forests

The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions. How to destroy the world’s forests The oldest stories of human lore have to do with cutting trees and with the disasters that followed as a consequence. Above, Legendary Sumerian heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the guardian of the trees, Huwawa (image source). Several […]

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If you can’t see it, it can kill you. Propaganda, for instance.

If you can’t see it, it can kill you. Propaganda, for instance. If you never took this test before, spend two minutes on it before reading the text below. The “selective attention” test you see above was developed in 1999 by Christopher Chablis and Daniel Simons. It shows how people have difficulties in perceiving the […]

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Saving the World: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? A Review of the Latest Report to the Club of Rome, “Come On”

Saving the World: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? A Review of the Latest Report to the Club of Rome, “Come On” Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism and the Destruction of the Planet. A new Report from the Club of Rome. By Ernst von Weizsaecker and Anders Wijkman – Book Review by Ugo Bardi Nearly half a century has […]

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The Seneca Ruin of the Dinosaurs – a Report from Berlin

The Seneca Ruin of the Dinosaurs – a Report from Berlin The death of the dinosaurs as shown in the 1940 movie “Fantasia” by Walt Disney. An incredibly powerful and moving scene – a true Seneca ruin for the poor creatures walking in a hot and dry landscape. This scene is also reasonably realistic: at […]

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The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse

The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse I gave a presentation focused on the Seneca Effect at the School of Physics in Les Houches this March. Here I show various concepts associated with overshoot and collapse with the help of “Amelie the Amoeba” (This picture was not taken in Les Houches, but in an […]

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Italian Elections: The Great Five-Star Surprise

Italian Elections: The Great Five-Star Surprise Nearly definitive results of the Italian national elections of March 4, 2018. the “five-star movement” (M5s) got the most votes, although the center-right wing coalition (CDX) has the largest number of seats in the Italian parliament. For the center-left (CSX), it was total disaster. In several senses, it is […]

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Where is the proof that CO2 warms the Earth?

February 27, 2018

Where is the proof that CO2 warms the Earth? A persistent element of the climate debate is the claim that “there is no proof” that CO2 and other greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere. This has generated a number of amateurish demonstrations of how the greenhouse effect works A good example of how NOT to carry […]

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Islands Not sinking: Climate Change Demonstrated to Be a Hoax

February 20, 2018

Islands Not sinking: Climate Change Demonstrated to Be a Hoax Have you ever wondered how it is possible that coral islands lie flat just a little above the sea level? It is not a coincidence, the coral reef that forms the islands is alive and it can adapt to variations of the sea level. According to […]

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The Life and Death of Memes: Vegan Vs. Macrobiotic

February 15, 2018

The Life and Death of Memes: Vegan Vs. Macrobiotic This 2009 book by Lierre Keith is a fascinating reflection on how ideology permeates people’s eating habits. Ideology, then, is based on memes and that’s a new and developing field of science. John Michael Greer (the Archdruid) tells the whole story of the great cycle of […]

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Keep on trucking? No, Keep on Platooning!

February 12, 2018

Keep on trucking? No, Keep on Platooning! The concept of “platooning” involves electronically connected trucks running close to each other. It is a much more innovative idea than that of self-driven private cars and it has the potential of revolutionizing road transport by drastically reducing costs. (image from scania.com). Self-driving cars (or “automated vehicles,” AVs) […]

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