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Ecological doom-loops: why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected–new research
Ecological doom-loops: why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected–new research Across the world, rainforests are becoming savanna or farmland, savanna is drying out and turning into desert, and icy tundra is thawing. Indeed, scientific studies have now recorded “regime shifts” like these in more than 20 different types of ecosystem where tipping points have been […]
Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide
Researchers: We’ve Underestimated The Risk of Simultaneous Crop Failures Worldwide (PeterAustin/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The risks of harvest failures in multiple global breadbaskets have been underestimated, according to a study Tuesday that researchers said should be a “wake up call” about the threat climate change poses to our food systems. Food production is both a key source of […]
Global Peak Oil Remains an Existential Threat
Global Peak Oil Remains an Existential Threat “I have reported on the dire impacts of global peak oil at guymcpherson.com for many years. My reports from August 2007 onward indicate the potential for peak oil to terminate industrial civilization. Information I discovered a few years later indicates that stopping or even slowing industrial activity will cause our extinction. […]
The Precipice: Europe on the Verge of Its Long Decline
The Precipice: Europe on the Verge of Its Long Decline Green transportation. No kidding. Photo by luana niemann on Unsplash A serious and long lasting economic downturn in Europe is now within sight. Not a mild recession, but something truly transformative… something similar to the 1930’s great depression. The energy crisis simmering on the back-burner since 2 years now seems to […]
When Nature Gazes Back
When Nature Gazes Back It’s been a month since I last posted on the theme of disenchantment, and a lively month at that. The cracks in America’s global empire have become increasingly visible around the world. Here at home the mentally challenged resident of the White House continues to blunder through a vague approximation of […]
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’
‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’ As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we […]
Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World’s Banks Are Headed for Collapse
Unsound Banking: Why Most of the World’s Banks Are Headed for Collapse You’re likely thinking that a discussion of “sound banking” will be a bit boring. Well, banking should be boring. And we’re sure officials at central banks all over the world today—many of whom have trouble sleeping—wish it were. This brief article will explain […]
Pakistan’s Dystopian Warning to the World
Pakistan’s Dystopian Warning to the World Supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan at a rally in Rawalpindi in November. Photographer: Asad Zaidi/Bloomberg Pakistan has touted itself as one of the world’s cradles of civilization, flourishing for thousands of years along ancient trade routes passing through the fertile Indus Valley. Now it presents a dystopian […]
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
After Civilization’s Collapse: Dr. Shane Simonsen, Zero Input Agriculture
Dusk of a Global Empire
Dusk of a Global Empire The slow passing of a global hegemon, the Empire of all empires, made me ponder how it will pass to the pages of history books. Apparently, its ruling elite has chosen a strategy called spite: knowingly (or unknowingly) hurting their own self interest, hoping that their enemies will be hurt […]
The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge
The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge “This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all the[se] schmucks to promise all kinds of goodies and paradise on earth which will bring the country to crisis” Yuri Bezmenov Rewatching this video of a defector from the Soviet Union in […]
Two Different Perspectives – Same Conclusion: Modern Lifestyles Will End Soon
Two Different Perspectives – Same Conclusion: Modern Lifestyles Will End Soon Dr. Berndt Warm’s Perspective Thanks to Marromai for finding this new paper by physicist Dr. Berndt Warm. Dr. Warm uses 5 different methods, 4 relying on economics, and 1 on thermodynamics, to predict when the end of oil production and motor vehicle production will occur. All 5 methods […]
Finding a place to take a stand
Finding a place to take a stand Mapping regions bio and cultural David McCloskey’s recently completed mapping of regions around the Salish Sea. Regions in a time of breakdown The Raven is increasingly focusing on the concept of regionalism, the idea that, as urbanist Lewis Mumford put forward many years ago, there is a “regional framework […]
2022 — A Year-End Contemplation
2022 — A Year-End Contemplation Another year has passed (almost), yet the world didn’t collapse. We have got close to nuclear annihilation — probably closer than we’ve ever had — yet we are still here. The long decline of our High-Tech civilization in general, and the Western empire in particular works on different timescales than […]
My One Prediction for 2023
My One Prediction for 2023 The question that should be on our minds is: how are my household’s buffers holding up? Lists of predictions for the new year are reliably popular. Here’s 10 predictions, there’s 17 predictions, over here we have 23 and a half… let’s strip it all down to one prediction: everyone’s predictions will be […]
