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Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse IX Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986) photo by author Once more a comment posted in the Tyee in response to ongoing ‘debate’ with others in regard to the 2020 U.S. presidential election and some of the accusations of irregularities surrounding the process. While not obviously related to ‘collapse’ I will add some context […]
How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart?
How Do You Know When Society Is About to Fall Apart? Meet the scholars who study civilizational collapse. When I first spoke with Joseph Tainter in early May, he and I and nearly everyone else had reason to be worried. A few days earlier, the official tally of Covid-19 infections in the United States had […]
Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations
Annual demonstrations in defense of women’s lives and agroecology in the territory of Borborema. Foto: Nilton Pereira/AS-PTA Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations In this first of a three-part contribution to Agroecology Now, Paulo Petersen and Denis Monteiro present the current moment as a crisis in capitalism that demands systemic and […]
A Biden Presidency Will Mean A Faster US Collapse
A Biden Presidency Will Mean A Faster US Collapse The election of 2020 is perhaps the most bizarre affair in modern American history; not since the post Civil War turmoil of reconstruction and the election of 1876 have we seen the nation divided so completely along ideological lines. Questions of states rights vs. federal power […]
Taboos and illusions in the environmental question: The viewpoint of a physician
Taboos and illusions in the environmental question: The viewpoint of a physician Physicians have a view of the world that makes them especially able to understand the concept I called the “Seneca Cliff.” Here, Lukas Fierz, Swiss physician, provides some basic principles that apply to collapses of complex systems, it doesn’t matter if we deal […]
World leaders are planning new lock downs to introduce “The World Debt Reset Program” which includes universal basic income and vaccination requirements
World leaders are planning new lock downs to introduce “The World Debt Reset Program” which includes universal basic income and vaccination requirements (Natural News) World leaders are preparing for a second and third wave of covid-19 cases and are fine-tuning their lock down strategies which will be implemented late in 2020 and into 2021. Their planning […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VII Pompeii, Italy (1993) Photo by author Ha! It’s poetry in motion Now she’s making love to me The spheres are in commotion The elements in harmony She blinded me with science (She blinded me with science!) And hit me with technology -Thomas Dolby, 1982 (She Blinded Me With Science) *** […]
Has Our Luck Finally Run Out?
Has Our Luck Finally Run Out? We are woefully unprepared for a long run of bad luck. Long-term cycles escape our notice because they play out over many years or even decades; few noticed the decreasing rainfall in the Mediterranean region in 150 A.D. but this gradual decline in rainfall slowly but surely reduced the grain […]
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 V
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V Pompeii (1993) Photo by author Yet another of my comments for an article on The Tyee regarding energy and how we should approach our coming dilemmas. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/10/02/BC-Needs-Wartime-Approach-Climate-Emergency/ _____ While I certainly appreciate the need to ‘correct’ our global industrial civilization’s path from its current trajectory there is an obvious ‘problem’ with […]
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable? The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author My comment on an article in The Tyee about our federal government’s latest throne speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/24/Throne-Speech-Stew/). _____ The idea that a sovereign nation can never run into trouble financially because it can create its own currency is certainly the […]
Collapse Is A Process, Not An Event
Collapse Is A Process, Not An Event How does one ‘get ahead’ during hard times? Look, I’m a systems guy. I think in systems terms. You should as well. Why? Because we’re entering a period of time when the major systems that have supported humanity are going to fail. Or, put more accurately: they are already failing. […]
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse VIII
October 30, 2020
Today’s Contemplation: The Coming Collapse VIII Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Once again, a comment I posted in response to an article on The Tyee. Where to begin? I realise this article is primarily about a federal political party and its future but there are two underlying issues that are discussed that need far […]
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