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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI It’s truly unfortunate that our society pursues such self-evidently egregious exploits on our environment. You can’t continue to pollute your backyard without eventually destroying the complex ecological systems that support you — to say little about the finiteness of most resources we overly depend upon. And, certainly, we can’t continue […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh As I approach my 7th decade on this planet, I have reached the conclusion that we all interpret the world through mythical narratives; some of our own creation, many (most?) others ‘imposed’ upon us. The ruling class of society conditions us in numerous ways to accept stories that, for the most […]
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives It’s fascinating to watch the competing narratives regarding Covid-19 and risk assessment duke it out across the media universe (from social to mainstream to alternate media). As I’ve increasingly come to believe, we all believe what we want to believe. The continuum of beliefs seems to be that: we have […]
It Just Doesn’t Matter
It Just Doesn’t Matter When an avalanche is about to descend upon you, does it really matter which snowflake was the penultimate cause? While it’s interesting (in a mental masturbation kind of way) to debate the genesis of a pending market collapse, environmental chaos, or energy cliff, in the end, it really doesn’t matter–unless, of course, […]
Rissa-A Short Story
Rissa-A Short Story Prompted by John Michael Greer’s latest short story contest and invitation to “…Fling yourself into the far future, far enough that today’s crises are matters for the history books, or tales out of ancient myth, or forgotten as completely as the crises and achievements of the Neanderthal people are today, and tell a story about […]
CBC and the Control of Narratives, A Rant
During the CBC’s Ontario Today show (July 10) the theme was one of cheerleading the Pan-Am games taking place in the Greater Toronto Area and sharing plans for those games. I called to share a contrarian perspective, basically that it was another example of a massive misallocation of diminishing resources and energy (not meant as […]
Stouffville Corner
A new section of my site, Stouffville Corner, aims to provide a variety of write-ups on topics I consider to be of primary importance/ interest. The aim was to have my local paper, Stouffville Tribune, publish them on a weekly/bi-weekly basis to bring the issues to the consciousness of my local community (thus the name). […]
RESOURCE CRISIS: The Olduvai cliff: are the lights going out already?
RESOURCE CRISIS: The Olduvai cliff: are the lights going out already?. Image from Li and Li, “international journal of remote sensing.” h/t Colonel Cassad“. The image shows the nighttime light pattern in Syria three years ago (a) and today (b). Those among us who are diehard catastrophists surely remember the “Olduvai Scenario” proposed by Richard Duncan in 1989. The […]
