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If humanity’s critical planetary overshoot is not corrected deliberately, nature will impose a chaotic implosion
If humanity’s critical planetary overshoot is not corrected deliberately, nature will impose a chaotic implosion “If we wish civilization to continue, human beings must learn to live more equitably, well within the means of nature” – William Rees. — No 2709 Posted by fw, February 14, 2021 — “So, if I can just summarize and put […]
By William Rees – Climate change isn’t the problem, so what is?
By William Rees – Climate change isn’t the problem, so what is? Thanks to friend and retired blogger Gail Zawacki at Wit’s End for bringing this excellent new talk by professor William Rees to my attention. Rees discusses our severe state of ecological overshoot and the behaviors that prevent us from taking any useful action to make the future […]
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial
un-Denial Manifesto: Energy and Denial Six years ago this essay launched and defined un-Denial.com. I’m featuring it on the home page to celebrate 500 posts. This is the story of the two most important things that enabled the success and possible demise of humans: energy and denial. Simple single cell (prokaryotic) life emerges as a gradual […]
Climate Change and the Mitigation Myth
Climate Change and the Mitigation Myth It is not nice to be told that you have been diagnosed with a terminal condition. It is even worse to be given false hope that if you did this or that you could mitigate the problem or turn it around when it cannot. If a medical practitioner does […]
Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson’s Society of Sloth?
Is Covid-19 providing cover for Jay Hanson’s Society of Sloth? Gail Tverberg made a comment today that rings true and motivated me to write about something I’ve been mulling for a while… https://ourfiniteworld.com/2020/12/23/2020-the-year-things-started-going-badly-wrong/comment-page-24/#comment-274042 I think the reaction to COVID-19 is part of how a self-organizing system works. People were looking for a reason to cut back/shut […]
Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
BOOM! Fossil Fuel Combustion and the Mother of All Economic Busts
BOOM! Fossil Fuel Combustion and the Mother of All Economic Busts Photograph Source: Eric Kounce TexasRaiser – Public Domain William Catton focussed on what follows a boom in the human population. He spelled out the scenario in his 1980 book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. As one reviewer put it, “Catton believed that industrial civilization had […]
Analysts Warn We’re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet
Analysts Warn We’re Running Out of Resources Needed to Sustain Life on Our Planet Have you ever heard of Earth Overshoot Day? No? Neither had I. It’s the day each year that we use up the resources that can be renewed within that year. This year, it was on August 1st, so for the rest […]
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year
Today we’ve consumed more resources than the planet can renew in a year Our economies are operating a giant planetary Ponzi scheme: borrowing far more from the Earth’s ecosystems than they can sustain. Photo by Jenny Tañedo Today is Earth Overshoot Day, the date when we have taken more from nature than it can renew […]
Our Economy is a Degenerative System
Our Economy is a Degenerative System Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the […]
Our only hope for long term survival
Our only hope for long term survival Language warning: Many may find the following article offensive, such as: Technocornucopians – eg geoengineering and carbon drawdown fantasists, blinkered university academics and engineers, TZM, Elon Musk etc People who think reducing population and/or consumption are sacred cows which should never be mentioned People who are shocked […]
