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The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: February 13-19, 2025 CLICK HERE What Will Energy Dominance Be Used For? – by Arthur Berman Thirsty For Solutions, Water Scarcity Grips Iraq Humans will Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Nine Meals To Chaos The Double Bind of Collapse | how to save the world Ecological Collapse Supersedes Financial Collapse […]
World Without End: A Necessary Graphic Novel
WORLD WITHOUT END: A NECESSARY GRAPHIC NOVEL “Our house is burning and we are looking the other way.” This sentence was pronounced during the fourth Earth Summit in 2002, and has left its mark on more than one mind. It recently made its come back in a new form with “don’t look up,” used in the eponymous […]
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare There are two extraordinary facts about the convention on biological diversity, whose members are meeting in Montreal now to discuss the […]
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk” So-called rationalists have created a disturbing secular religion that looks like it addresses humanity’s deepest problems, but actually justifies pursuing the social preferences of elites. In a late-2020 interview with CNBC, Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn made a perplexing statement. “Climate change,” he said, “is not going to be an […]
The Survivors Will Be Bioregional
The Survivors Will Be Bioregional I want to talk to all of you today about the humans that survived the current planetary predicament. How did they organize their lives? What was the key to their success? It is no secret that we are in the midst of a severe period of ecological collapse. The exploding human population lay […]
Earth Over the Brink
Earth Over the Brink Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. Others are hacking […]
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown
Stability without Growth: Keynes in an Age of Climate Breakdown What do Keynesian Democrats think about the movement for post-growth and de-growth economics? Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington, DC, has given us some insight into this question. In a recent blog post, republished by Counterpunch, he […]
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal Photo Source NASA ICE | CC BY 2.0 On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: “For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.” According to the scientists, now is […]
Why Growth Can’t Be Green
Why Growth Can’t Be Green New data proves you can support capitalism or the environment—but it’s hard to do both. Warnings about ecological breakdown have become ubiquitous. Over the past few years, major newspapers, including the Guardian and the New York Times, have carried alarming stories on soil depletion, deforestation, and the collapse of fish […]
Dying Ecosystems
Dying Ecosystems Photo by Richard Allaway | Public Domain Earth’s ecosystems support all life, though collapsed ecosystems would be like stepping outside of the international space station not wearing a space suit. Pop! Bam! Gone! A recent academic study about signals of ecosystem collapse throughout history fits the space suit analogy. Terrifying truth is exposed: […]
For Saving the Earth We Need to Tell the Whole Truth — an eco-socialist’s response to Richard Smith
For Saving the Earth We Need to Tell the Whole Truth — an eco-socialist’s response to Richard Smith In his article,1 Richard calls upon his readers to “change the conversation”. He asks, “What are your thoughts?” He says, if we don’t “come up with a viable alternative, our goose is cooked.” I fully agree. So […]
