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The Crises That Have Come With Urbanization
THE CRISES THAT HAVE COME WITH URBANIZATION One of the defining aspects of our current civilization and one of the most worrying trends of modernity is our urbanization as a species. When we take the long view of human history, it becomes obvious that for 99% of our history, we have been a rural people, […]
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause of those ills, and those who see Trump […]
Watch These Geopolitical Flashpoints Carefully
Watch These Geopolitical Flashpoints Carefully Anyone who has been involved in alternative geopolitical and economic analysis for a decent length of time understands that the establishment power structure thrives according to its ability to either exploit natural crises, or to engineer fabricated crises. This is not that hard to comprehend, but for some reason there […]
Economic Crises and the Crisis of Economics
Economic Crises and the Crisis of Economics LONDON – Is the economics profession “in crisis”? Many policymakers, such as Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, believe that it is. Indeed, a decade ago, economists failed to see a massive storm on the horizon, until it culminated in the most destructive global financial crisis in […]
Unlimited Propagandistic Lying from CNN
Unlimited Propagandistic Lying from CNN On Saturday April 2nd, CNN headlined, “U.S. F-15s Deployed to Iceland,” and Zachary Cohen opened: Demonstrating its commitment to a ‘free’ and ‘secure’ Europe, the United States deployed 12 F-15C Eagles and approximately 350 airmen to Iceland and the Netherlands on Friday, the Air Force announced. U.S. aircraft units from the 131st Fighter Squadron at […]
We’re Not Going To Make It…
We’re Not Going To Make It… …without real sacrifice Right now I’m on a Metro North train heading the NYC. I’ve been invited to sit on an advisory council at the UN on building a sustainable energy future. I’ll let you know how the meeting goes, after I take a few selfies to immortalize the experience in […]
The Grand Finale: “World War III Will Be A Fight Over Basic Human Needs – Food and Other Commodities”
The Grand Finale: “World War III Will Be A Fight Over Basic Human Needs – Food and Other Commodities” As political tensions heat up it is becoming clear that the world’s super powers are vying for control of resources like oil, water, metals and food. And though developed nations have thus far avoided any significant clashes […]
Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder
Preparedness Critics Are History’s Cannon Fodder The world is entering a kind of no man’s land, in between the realms of insane denial and utterly obvious crisis. Europe is now destabilizing amid the Greek soap opera (an event that I predictedin January would occur in 2015); China’s stock market bubble is bursting; and the U.S. dollar’s […]
Resilience is The New Black
Resilience is The New Black This is another essay from our friend Dr. Nelson Lebo III in New Zealand. Nelson is a certified expert in everything to do with resilience, especially how to build a home and a community designed to withstand disasters, be they natural or man-made, an earthquake or Baltimore. Aware that he […]
WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job
WANTED. Planet in crisis seeks leaders up to the job When the essence of leadership tends in the direction of doing injury and inflicting harm, it is a collapse of leadership, for which we do not have a name. – Stephen C Rose, in the introduction to his book: The Coming Collapse of Leadership. Why is it that […]
The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide
The Externality Trap, or, How Progress Commits Suicide I’ve commented more than once in these essays about the cooperative dimension of writing: the way that even the most solitary of writers inevitably takes part in what Mortimer Adler used to call the Great Conversation, the flow of ideas and insights across the centuries that’s responsible for […]
Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014
Revolution, Part 2: The New Paradigm | Degrowth 2014. Worried about the shit hitting the fan on climate change and other major crises? Good. Because those crises prove that civilization is in the midst of a phase shift to new forms – and we’ve got the opportunity, right now, to ride the wave of five […]
The Last Days Of The Growth Story – The Automatic Earth
The Last Days Of The Growth Story – The Automatic Earth. Dorothea Lange Rear window tenement dwelling, 133 Avenue D, NYC June 1936 I am thinking about the similarities between a financial crisis and for instance a family crisis, the death of a loved one or close friend, a divorce, or a personal bankruptcy. And I wonder […]
