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The Mind of the Evil Ruler: What Goes on inside the Heads of the People who Govern the World?

November 2, 2020

The Mind of the Evil Ruler: What Goes on inside the Heads of the People who Govern the World? The damage that bad rulers can do to people and things is gigantic, especially considering that they command military apparatuses of immense power. But what goes on in their minds, exactly? Are some of them truly […]

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Taboos and illusions in the environmental question: The viewpoint of a physician

October 24, 2020

Taboos and illusions in the environmental question: The viewpoint of a physician Physicians have a view of the world that makes them especially able to understand the concept I called the “Seneca Cliff.” Here, Lukas Fierz, Swiss physician, provides some basic principles that apply to collapses of complex systems, it doesn’t matter if we deal […]

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Can we Predict Collapses Before they Happen? What we Learned from the Pandemic

October 15, 2020

Can we Predict Collapses Before they Happen? What we Learned from the Pandemic My 2019 book “Before the Collapse.” In it, I examined several scenarios of the future of humankind. Was I able to predict the current pandemic? Of course not in the details, but I think that I did note an important facet […]

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Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind

October 1, 2020

Do we Still have a Chance? The Challenge of Emergency Measures for the Survival of Humankind The epidemic of COVID-19 seems to have snuffed out all other subjects of debate. But there remain problems that we could define as a little more worrisome than the COVID pandemic, for instance, the possibility of the extinction […]

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Politics in the Age of the Coronavirus. What can we learn from the Italian Elections?

September 23, 2020

Politics in the Age of the Coronavirus. What can we learn from the Italian Elections? Sep 20, 2020. The president of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, votes at the Italian regional elections. In these elections, the first in the age of the COVID, the victory went to the Left largely by means of over a better strategy […]

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Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger?

September 15, 2020

Famines as Military Weapons: Is Europe in Danger? A Dutch girl photographed at the time of the “hongerwinter”, the famine that hit The Netherlands in 1945, during WW2. In the West, we tend to think of famines as events of the remote past that will never return, a view typified by Steven Pinker in his […]

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The lure of imperial dreams: What are our leaders going to do to us?

September 10, 2020

The lure of imperial dreams: What are our leaders going to do to us? Donald Trump is often represented wearing some kind of imperial garb. Actually, his presidency may have been less imperial than that of his predecessors. Yet, his style as president is very much “imperial” and his winning slogan in the 2016 elections, […]

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How Poor Leadership can Create Collapse or Make It Faster: Lessons from European History

September 6, 2020

How Poor Leadership can Create Collapse or Make It Faster: Lessons from European History The damage that a bad leader can generate is simply fearsome, especially if that leader has a lot of power and he is nearly impossible to remove from his position. If then that leader controls a large military apparatus, even including […]

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The Triumph of Catastrophism. How Greta Thunberg Carried the Day

August 25, 2020

The Triumph of Catastrophism. How Greta Thunberg Carried the Day Disclaimer: I am NOT saying here that the Covid-19 does not exist nor that people didn’t die because of it. If you react with the term “denialism” you are only showing that you have no rational arguments to produce. Do you remember that weird girl […]

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How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions after one year

August 10, 2020

How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions after one year In “The Outsider” (1926), H. P. Lovecraft tell the story of someone who lives underground and who discovers his true nature only when he comes out of his crypt and sees his own image in a mirror. That’s not exactly my case, but […]

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The Corona Crisis: Fighting the Authoritarian Response

The Corona Crisis: Fighting the Authoritarian Response At least 20 thousand people (some say many more) marched in Berlin on August 1st 2020 to protest against the restrictions imposed by governments against the Covid-19 epidemic. Unanimously branded as “criminals,” “neo-nazis,” and “idiots” by the Western media, their presence is nevertheless an indication of a growing […]

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Fighting Overpopulation: Ten methods to exterminate most of humankind

Fighting Overpopulation: Ten methods to exterminate most of humankind First of all, a disclaimer: I am not advocating the extermination of anyone! This post is just an attempt of mine to place myself in the boots of the bad guys who could think of doing such a thing and examine how they could do it. […]

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What if your government has decided to kill you? An interpretation by Antonio Turiel

What if your government has decided to kill you? An interpretation by Antonio Turiel “Necroeconomics” is a concept used by some economists to describe the results of the collapse of the Soviet Economy, in the 1990s. Apart from the pure economic disaster, the collapse led to a trend of population decrease that, in some cases, […]

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The End of an Age: The Failure of Catastrophism

The End of an Age: The Failure of Catastrophism The considerations below originate from a post by Michael Krieger where he describes how he is so dismayed by the reaction of the public to the current epidemic that he is closing his blog to rethink the whole matter over. You can read of similar feelings in a […]

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On the Edge of the Cliff: We need a new way of seeing the world

On the Edge of the Cliff: We need a new way of seeing the world A new blog by Ugo Bardi, “The Proud Holobionts”Long-term predictive models don’t have a very good record, but some turned out to be prophetic. One case is that of Hubbert’s 1956 prediction of a peak in the production of fossil energy […]

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