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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
Are You Ready for Collapse?
Are You Ready for Collapse? MIT analyzed it and KPMG updated it: economic collapse is nigh. © Skorzewiak / Shutterstock In 2019, Pierre Charbonnier penned an article for the French journal Revue du Crieur on the emerging trend known as collapsology. “Theories about the imminent collapse of industrial civilization are in vogue,” he writes in an […]
Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct
Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse Credit: Jordan Lye/Getty Images Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called “So Long Mom (A Song for […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXIV Athens, Greece (1984) Photo by author ***** Supply chain disruptions and the product shortages that result have become a growing concern over the past couple of years and the reasons for these are as varied as the people providing the ‘analysis’. Production delays. Covid-19 pandemic. Pent-up consumer demand. Central bank […]
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons
When Everything Is Artifice and PR, Collapse Beckons The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion. The consequences of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is difficult to discern in day-to-day life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion […]
Too clever by half, but not nearly smart enough
Too clever by half, but not nearly smart enough
Collapse (Part 1)
Collapse (Part 1) https://youtu.be/gdBSWjxKJOE
Who Would Survive the Collapse of Civilization?
Who Would Survive the Collapse of Civilization?
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Collapse in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament
Third of UK’s remaining energy suppliers are at imminent risk of collapse
Third of UK’s remaining energy suppliers are at imminent risk of collapse About a third of the UK’s dwindling number of domestic energy suppliers are at imminent risk of collapse amid soaring wholesale energy prices, new analysis suggests. © Provided by The Telegraph Wind turbinesFourteen electricity and gas suppliers are deemed “maximum risk” under their credit […]
George Monbiot champions wealth taxes on ultra-rich as best way to prevent environmental collapse
George Monbiot champions wealth taxes on ultra-rich as best way to prevent environmental collapse Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? Most of our dysfunctions are caused by pandering to the rich. — George Monbiot “Why do we tolerate the massive environmental impacts of the very rich? Most of our dysfunctions […]
