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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025
The Bulletin: June 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Study finds planetary waves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950 A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. – The New York Times IEA Doubles Down On Peak Oil […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCI– Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation: Envisioning An Alternative Future Pompeii, Italy (1992). Photo by author. Following on the heels of my Contemplation that looked at a Peak Oil article that focused upon whether our cities would ‘collapse’ or not as a result of waning hydrocarbons (see: Website; Medium; […]
The Bulletin: March 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: March 13-19, 2025 CLICK HERE The Great Gas Pipeline Caper of 2025 – by Terry Cowan BlackRock CEO Says American ‘Practicalism’ Can ‘Make Energy Great’ | The Epoch Times Some Psychology for Responding To a World in Chaos Can We Feed Ourselves Just out of Our Vegetable Gardens? The Lost Art of […]
The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025
The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025 The Falsification of Everything | how to save the world Emissions Are SO Not the Only Problem with Cars Rhyming History: Weimar Germany’s Hyperinflation At least 6 dead, more than 300 000 without power as major winter storm sweeps through U.S. Net Energy Cliff & the Collapse of Civilization Quarter […]
The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025
The Bulletin: January 2-8, 2025 End Of An Era: Ukraine Halts Transit Of Russian Gas To Europe | ZeroHedge By Charles & Chris: Doomers Anonymous We need dramatic social and technological changes’: is societal collapse inevitable? | Climate crisis | The Guardian The System’s Self-Destruct Sequence Cannot Be Turned Off Seeing overshoot – by Elisabeth […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline August 3, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Picture by author. Today’s Contemplation is composed of my comments on two different FB posts I came across yesterday. The first is a reply to a comment to a MSN article regarding a possible Covid-19-type lockdown scenario based upon […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future September 1, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future Viewing ‘degrowth’ through my archaeology/anthropology lens (and primarily via archaeologist Joseph Tainter’s thesis laid out in The […]
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett Collapse and Recovery What’s the relationship between our energy consumption, our material footprint and our economies? Tim Garrett and I come to refer to these as “the holy trinity”. Tim is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, and over two years ago, he joined me […]
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up How to speak to a hostile crowd Some weeks ago, I was sitting on stage with an economist from the World Trade Organisation and a banker from UBS. We were opening a small, one-day conference for the private aviation industry, and I had been invited to challenge the prevailing […]
“Degrowth” is a tough sell
“Degrowth” is a tough sell We need positive language to work toward positive outcomes The seeds of Big-seeded Biscuitroot (Lomatium macrocarpum), a traditional First Food of western North America. Photo taken in eastern Oregon, Aug. 15, 2022. March 14th was “Earth Overshoot Day” for the United States. What that means is that, if every country in the […]
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI–Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future
Today Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CI February 13, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Theory Is Great, In Theory: More On Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Future Quite often I get involved in online discussions with others about our predicament(s). Most of the time these are quite friendly in nature and a sharing of ideas […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIV–Chasing Perpetual Growth On a Finite Planet
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXIV December 16, 2022 (original posting date) Chitcen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Chasing Perpetual Growth On a Finite Planet A very brief contemplation (as I work on some longer ones) that shares my response to the following billboard that was shared on the Degrowth Facebook group I am a member of: […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII–Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXII December 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Government: Constantly Forsaking Our Ecological Systems to Chase the Perpetual Growth Chalice Todays’ contemplation has been prompted by the usual shenanigans of government. In this case, the government of my home province of Ontario, Canada. As regular readers of […]
