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Keeping the Balance
Keeping the Balance COMMENT: Civil unrest is defivately rising, your models are so good at looking far into the future! With incidents like this, I really find it interesting reading public comments on social media are empathetic and typically left leaning. I also find it interesting how ignorant the left are in not realizing that they are […]
Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study
Earth tipping points could destabilize each other in domino effect: Study A new risk analysis has found that the tipping points of five of Earth’s subsystems — the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the Amazon rainforest — could interact with […]
The Fall of Civilizations
The Fall of Civilizations Roman Britain The Bronze Age Collapse The Mayans The Greenland Vikings The Khmer Rouge Easter Island The Songhai Empire The Sumerians The Aztecs The Han Dynasty Byzantium
This is How a Civilization Collapses
This is How a Civilization Collapses What Does a Civilization That’s Beginning to Collapse Look Like? This, Here, Now Image Credit: Lex Augusteijn “You don’t seriously think…civilization…is going to…collapse? Do you? LOL! Dude!! Here, have a beer!” It’s a question I get asked these days, sometimes angrily, sometimes mockingly, sometimes like I’m crazy — rarely seriously. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Today’s thought was motivated by another Tyee article that carries on the notion of ‘clean energy’ and the ‘magical thinking’ needed to buy into such narratives. * * * As long as language is being manipulated (e.g., ‘clean energy’ is a gargantuan oxymoron), magical […]
The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXII Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author A personal view of the ‘Net-Zero’ policy being implemented by governments around the world, particularly those of the ‘West’. * * * As happens so often (always?), the ruling elite are manipulating what is possibly one of our more (most?) existential dilemmas so […]
How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong
How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong I have written many posts relating to the fact that we live in a finite world. At some point, our ability to extract resources becomes constrained. At the same time, population keeps increasing. The usual outcome when population is too high for resources is “overshoot and collapse.” But this […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XVI Knossos, Greece (1993) Photo by author Another quick thought on our impending energy cliff situation and comment on an article suggesting overconsumption is our greatest threat and that we can be happy without it. * * * The threats humanity faces are never simple and always multifaceted and intertwined. Overconsumption […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XV Rome, Italy (1984) Photo by author Energy. It’s at the core of everything we do. Everything. Yet we take it for granted and rarely think about it and what the finiteness of our various energy sources means for us. As Gail Tverberg of Our Finite World concludes in a recent thought-provoking article that should […]
COLLAPSE! — Think of collapse as a drastic and chaotic reduction in energy and resource use
COLLAPSE! — Think of collapse as a drastic and chaotic reduction in energy and resource use “… my fundamentally conservative core requires a default position that collapse is the most likely outcome,” says physicist Tom Murphy. — Tom Murphy “The first thing I should say is that the word ‘collapse’ freaks me out. I don’t use […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIV Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Part of an ongoing conversation with another regarding globalisation and whether it is a beneficial or detrimental endeavour of humanity. You can find the entire back and forth here. * * * The notion that to address our overshoot dilemma by bringing the […]
