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The Long Descent — Decline and Fall of Industrial Society
The Long Descent — Decline and Fall of Industrial Society The title of this piece is borrowed from John Michael Greer’s 2008 book The Long Descent, the central thesis of which is threefold. Firstly, the industrial civilisation we take for granted is unsustainable and is in decline. The evidence for this is all around us but many […]
The Future of the World Economy is Perma-Crisis
The Future of the World Economy is Perma-Crisis These Aren’t Shortages — They’re the Beginning of the Longest, Hardest Economic Collapse in History Image Credit: 7News Screenshot Sshh, don’t tell anyone. In my other life, I’m a musician. I’m lucky enough to be working with a vocalist who many of you’ve probably heard of. Her […]
Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy
Bonus: Galactic-Scale Energy with Tom Murphy Take it from astrophysicist Tom Murphy. Sure, lightsabers, dilithium crystal warp drives, and Mars colonies are a lot of fun to consider. But a physics-based perspective on energy tells us that we need to accept the limits to growth, stop chasing sci-fi fantasies, and get to work building a […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses
15 Common Dynamics of SHTF Collapses When it comes to how we see and prepare for SHTF, thinking in terms of real and probable rather than fictional and possible can make a big difference. Even though SHTF has many forms and levels and is in essence complex, random, diverse and unsystematic, some patterns and principles are common to the way things unfold […]
Take us to DEFCON 1
Take us to DEFCON 1 The US military defines its Defense Readiness Condition (DEFCON) levels as follows: DEFCON 5 is normal readiness. DEFCON 4 is above normal readiness. DEFCON 3 is the air force ready to mobilize in 15 minutes. DEFCON 2 is all forces ready to fight in 6 hours. DEFCON 1 is the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author 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 Friedemann of energyskeptic.com. * * * I […]
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse
The Illusion of Stability, the Inevitability of Collapse Beneath the illusory stability of rising GDP, the extremes of debt, leverage, stimulus and speculative frenzy required to keep the ‘phantom wealth bubble’ from imploding are all rising parabolically. Imagine being at a party celebrating the vast wealth generated in the last ten months in stocks, cryptocurrencies, […]
A Prayer for Nonbelievers
A Prayer for Nonbelievers I was ten years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things on my mind in 1972—my parents got divorced that year, and an already difficult childhood promptly got much worse—and several years […]
Tao of Degrowth
Tao of Degrowth I am a degrowther and a doomer but this is not what your first reaction indicates. We are taught to be optimistic and so forth. People loath pessimist and doomers. People tire of people who cry wolf constantly. This is what the doom movement has done for decades now. There is some […]
What a CATASTROPHIC Supply Chain Breakdown Will Look Like
What a CATASTROPHIC Supply Chain Breakdown Will Look Like “…there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence.” – George Orwell. When a society falls apart, it’s hard to know exactly how it will all fracture and break apart. We can tell a little bit of our course […]
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse
You’re Not Going to Homestead Through Collapse No matter how self-sufficient you become Photo by Roger Darnell on Unsplash “By collapse, I mean a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity over a considerable area, for an extended time.” — Jared Diamond in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (2005) People […]
Cognitive Dissonance and Outright Lies at the Edge of Extinction
Cognitive Dissonance and Outright Lies at the Edge of Extinction In recent weeks and months I have been amazed at the general public and most scientists ability to ignore the blatant evidence that we are in early stage, non-linear runaway warming. From individual activists, to the donation soaked and addicted corporate NGO’s, who are literally dependent […]
The only thing worse than an energy collapse
The only thing worse than an energy collapse We learned recently that one of the last coal power stations in the UK is bidding to become the first commercial nuclear fusion plant on Earth. The news should be taken with a large pinch of salt… nuclear fusion has been 25 years in the future since before I […]
