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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX–Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX September 21, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses Today’s post has been prompted by some thoughts regarding the inability of our political systems to respond in a timely manner to our plight of ecological overshoot penned by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, and posted by Alice […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIV–Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIV Knossos, Greece (1993). Photo by author. Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination Today’s Contemplation is a glimpse into some conversation between myself and another around growth, denial, and differences in what can/should be advocated for. Post by GW: Just saw the sign coming in to town which reads “Country close to the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXII–Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXII Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs Today’s brief Contemplation was prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that looks at the latest energy ‘breakthrough’ (seems there is one every other week) and how it’s going to save modern civilisation, our species, and the planet. In this […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVII–Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Denial: Avoiding the Pain
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVII Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Denial: Avoiding the Pain I share an ongoing conversation with others in my town of Stouffville regarding a post on a local Facebook Group discussing ongoing expansion of our suburban community. Note the common thinking along the lines of growth being a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI–Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI May 24, 2021 Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author Finite Energy, Overconsumption, and Magical Thinking Through Denial Another quick thought on our impending energy cliff situation and comment on an article suggesting overconsumption is our greatest threat and that we can be happy without it. This is an excellent article. The threats […]
Peak Oil Gets Admitted?
Peak Oil Gets Admitted? Denial is like a glacier. At first sight, and to everyone standing on it, it looks rock solid. Then cracks start to develop, and before you know it, a huge chunk breaks off and drifts away — never to be seen again. This is what’s happening to peak oil right in […]
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff
Professional Managers Are Driving Us Off the Cliff “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci We live through transitional times. Transition from an era of growth to economic contraction. From a stable climate to something utterly different and chaotic. From […]
All Will Be Fine!
All Will Be Fine! Economic collapse simply cannot happen to Europe You all know this feeling running under the title ‘this cannot happen to me’. During normal times it does have a certain usefulness to it, protecting one from falling into panic and overreacting all sorts of possible problems. It also makes life look smooth […]
The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon Us.
The Fourth Great Humiliation of Humanity is Upon Us. If we don’t pull our heads in, we’re doomed. If we do, the future is bright. “Galileo Sees the Earth” by sjrankin is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0._c WHEN I WAS TEACHING in Japan 20 years ago, one of my students introduced me to The Three Great […]
Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness
Why We Ignore the Obvious: The Psychology of Willful Blindness How to counter the gradual narrowing of our horizons. “Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know,” pioneering investigative journalist Lincoln Steffens wrote in a beautiful 1926 letter of life-advice to his baby son. And yet the folly of the human […]
What are our leaders doing?
What are our leaders doing? What force is powerful enough to synchronize every leader in almost every country to do the wrong thing on almost every covid action without assuming every leader is evil and/or stupid? Why has no one figured out what’s going on, including normally intelligent alt-media? Let’s assume that most of our leaders […]
By Gaia Gardener: On Suffering
By Gaia Gardener: On Suffering Buried in the comments of the last post we discussed human overshoot and what should be done about it. I proposed our goal should be to minimize suffering and that the best path to achieving this goal is awareness of Ajit Varki’s Mind Over Reality Transition (MORT) theory. My view, in summary, is […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The following contemplation has been prompted by some commentary regarding a recent article by Megan Seibert of the Real Green New Deal Project. It pulls together a couple of threads that I’ve been discussing the past few months… * * * * * There is no ‘remedy’ […]
