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Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us
Extinction and Responsibility: Why Climate Disaster Might Heal Us Even As it Kills Us If climate disaster has left us with no future do we still feel responsible to the earth that outlives us? Or do we say “who cares?” If we say “who cares?” then our sense of responsibility was never anything more than […]
Civilization as asteroid: humans, livestock, and extinctions
Mass of humans, livestock, and wild animals (terrestrial mammals and birds) Civilization as asteroid: humans, livestock, and extinctions Humans and our livestock now make up 97 percent of all animals on land. Wild animals (mammals and birds) have been reduced to a mere remnant: just 3 percent. This is based on mass. Humans and our […]
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back
Everything That Dies Does Not Come Back Charles Sprague Pearce The Arab jeweler c1882 There are a lot of industries in our world that wreak outsized amounts of havoc. Think the biggest global banks and oil companies. Think plastics. But there is one field that is much worse than all others: agro-chemicals. At some point, […]
Making It To The 4th Second
Prince Ea Making It To The 4th Second A hard-hitting delivery of the predicament humanity faces Our work here at PeakProsperity.com focuses on raising awareness of the serious challenges facing humanity as we continue to live well beyond our economic, energetic and ecological means. Through the Three Es framework presented in The Crash Course, we’ve […]
Extinction vs. Collapse
Extinction vs. Collapse Does it Matter? Climate twitter – the most fun twitter – has recently been relitigating the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope. It was sparked by an interview in The Guardian with acclaimed scientist Mayer Hillman. He argues that we’re probably […]
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction
Societal Death or Transfiguration? Cinema Visions of Humanity Facing Extinction Still from “Downsizing.” How should world society respond to the approach of human extinction compelled by implacable external forces, such as: radioactive fallout after a global nuclear war (as in Nevil Shute’s novel On the Beach), or an alien invasion by a species of technologically […]
The Science of a Vanishing Planet
The Science of a Vanishing Planet Dorothea Lange Gravestone St. George, Utah 1953There are numerous ways to define the Precautionary Principle. It’s something we can all intuitively understand, but which many parties seek ways to confuse since it has the potential to stand in the way of profits. Still, in the end it should all […]
The Importance Of Knowing
The Importance Of Knowing Without insight, action is useless At Peak Prosperity, we strive to help people advance in three key areas: Knowing, Doing and Being. Doing and Being are the resilience-building steps we recommend. Helping folks develop their own personal action plans in these areas is the main focus of the seminars we run. […]
On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us
On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us The devastating consequences of human superiority over nature. “We can’t prevent the suffering and dying of wild life, and the Earth herself, when confronted by the unleashed forces of fire and water, but we can include them in our assessment of the cost. We […]
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity
Mass Extinction and Mass Insanity Caters Extremely rare albino elephant, Kruger National Park in South AfricaEverything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back … Springsteen, Atlantic City “Erwin Schrodinger (1945) has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding […]
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters
Ethics and Ecosystem Interactions: Why Reconciliation Ecology Matters The problem with ecosystem interactions Here’s a phrase that’s lately been haunting me: “the extinction of ecosystem interactions.” I first encountered it in science writer Connie Barlow’s fascinating book, The Ghosts of Evolution, which is about the plants, mainly trees, that have lingered into modern times even though […]
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness
Extinction, the New Environmentalism and the Cancer in the Wilderness The word is in from the wildlife biologists. Say goodbye in North America to the gray wolf, the cougar, the grizzly bear. They are destined for extinction sometime in the next 40 years. Say goodbye to the Red wolf and the Mexican wolf and the […]
The Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm
The Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm The oceans of the world are currently experiencing a “perfect storm” that is nasty, real nasty with too much warming, too much acidification, too much CO2, too much fishing, too many chemicals, too much Ag runoff, too much radiation (Fukushima), and too little ice (Arctic Ocean) bringing on too much […]
