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#220. The human factor
#220. The human factor CONTINUITY, CONTRACTION OR COLLAPSE Over an extended period, but with growing intensity in recent times, there has been a discussion, here and elsewhere, about whether we can prevent economic contraction from turning into collapse. This is part of a broader debate in which every point of view seems to begin with the letter C. The […]
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse Photograph Source: Studio Incendo – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies collapse and civilizations die. Meanwhile, a lucrative market has emerged for post-apocalyptic novels, […]
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
The Thermodynamics of Collapse
Collapse You Say, Part 10/Time for Change, Part 1: Money
Collapse You Say, Part 10/Time for Change, Part 1: Money Waves, rocks and ice on the Lake Huron shore Earlier in this series (Parts 5 and 6) I looked at overpopulation and overconsumption and concluded that while both are serious problems, overpopulation is going to take decades to solve, while overconsumption could be addressed quite quickly. By reducing […]
How Inflation Could Crash The Economy In 2022
How Inflation Could Crash The Economy In 2022 Photo by Alyssa Kibiloski It’s understandable if you’re tired of hearing about rising inflation. But it has become an economic mainstay in the Biden Administration. And each month seems to bring fresh records not experienced in decades. For Baby Boomers who lived through the Carter years, 2021 might […]
How to Survive the Mega Collapse of 2022
How to Survive the Mega Collapse of 2022 Welcome to 2022! The New Year’s edition of the Economic Prism is a place of wild guesses and rough suppositions. Today we focus our eyes through our proprietary prism. We set our sights over a 12 month viewshed. What do we see? First off, 2022 will be […]
IMF, World Bank & 10 Countries Held Alarming “Simulation” Of Global Financial System Collapse
IMF, World Bank & 10 Countries Held Alarming “Simulation” Of Global Financial System Collapse IMF, World Bank & 10 Countries Held Alarming “Simulation” Of Global Financial System Collapse BY TYLER DURDEN TUESDAY, DEC 21, 2021 – 11:20 PM Earlier this month Reuters produced a report which didn’t receive nearly enough attention among the American public – its […]
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Let’s Talk About Agriculture
Let’s Talk About Agriculture An agricultural barn of the 1800’s located at Falls Mill, Belvidere, Tennessee Agriculture is a technology (like fire and the wheel) and a system of extracting minerals and nutrients from the soil through photosynthesis. The industrial method of agriculture adds the use of fossil fuels through the Haber-Bosch process for fertilizer, many different […]
Systems: Overshoot and Collapse
Systems: Overshoot and Collapse
Mainstream Economists Struggling to Hide the Incoming Economic Collapse
Mainstream Economists Struggling to Hide the Incoming Economic Collapse Photo by Annie Spratt For many years now there has been a contingent of alternative economists working diligently within the liberty movement to combat disinformation being spread by the mainstream media regarding America’s true economic condition. Our efforts have focused primarily on the continued devaluation of the […]
Is it possible that the world is approaching end times?
Is it possible that the world is approaching end times? I frequently write that the world economy is, in physics terms, a dissipative structure that is powered by energy. It can grow for a time, but eventually it reaches limits of many kinds. Ultimately, it can be expected to stop growing and collapse. It seems […]
The End of the Common Good
The End of the Common Good image by Gopal Vijayaraghavan on flickr, CC-BY-2.0 Anita Sreedhar and Anand Gopal, a doctor and a journalist, have been researching vaccine hesitancy for decades. In a recent NYT article they offered this remarkable perspective on it: Over the past four decades, governments have slashed budgets and privatized basic services. This has two important […]
Joseph Tainter on the Dynamics of the Collapse of Civilization
Joseph Tainter on the Dynamics of the Collapse of Civilization
