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The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge
The Four Stages of Societal Collapse and Thiel’s Libertarian Challenge “This is what will happen in the United States if you allow all the[se] schmucks to promise all kinds of goodies and paradise on earth which will bring the country to crisis” Yuri Bezmenov Rewatching this video of a defector from the Soviet Union in […]
Elon Musk: “Civilization Is Going To Crumble”
Elon Musk: “Civilization Is Going To Crumble” Even billionaires like Elon Musk can see that the current state of affairs is completely and utterly unsustainable. If we stay on the path that we are on, and there are absolutely no indications that we plan to reverse course, societal collapse is inevitable. In fact, as I […]
Collapse (Part 1)
Collapse (Part 1) https://youtu.be/gdBSWjxKJOE
Who Would Survive the Collapse of Civilization?
Who Would Survive the Collapse of Civilization?
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 […]
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 […]
Time’s Up
Time’s Up IT’S THE END OF WORLD, AND WE KNOW IT. Derek Carlisle _____ Picture six friends chatting about the environment. “There’s no such thing as global warming,” the first says. “Climate change is fake news.” “No, the planet is warming,” says another, “but in a gradual, natural cycle that’s repeated itself throughout Earth’s history. Higher temperatures […]
Soil salinity and erosion
Soil salinity and erosion Preface. Civilizations fail when their soils are ruined or eroded. One way conquerors made sure that those they enslaved during wars was to salt their land and burn their homes so they had nowhere to escape to. Erosion is an even larger nation killer, since not all soils are prone to […]
New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse
New Zealand rated best place to survive global societal collapse Study citing ‘perilous state’ of industrial civilisation ranks temperate islands top for resilience Bunker repurposed for a US ‘doomsday’ community. A study proposes that countries able to grow food for their populations, protect their borders from unwanted mass migration and maintain an electrical grid, are […]
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos Interview with Professor Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos, by Facing Future TV. In 2018, a climate paper by Jem Bendell went viral, being downloaded over a million times. It helped to launch a worldwide movement of people seeking to reduce harm in the face of […]
The End of Western Globalia?
The End of Western Globalia? Since the 1970’s, international trade has continuously been promoted by leaders of developed countries and economic agents. Several theoretical frameworks have been put forward to explain the benefits of a free trade environment, from Adam Smith’s concept of absolute advantages to more recent firm-based theories. However, the reality is much […]
Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves
Panicking about societal collapse? Plunder the bookshelves As civilization seems to be lurching towards a cliff edge, historical case studies are giving way to big data in authors’ search for understanding. Monuments to resilience or collapse? The 800-year-old statues of Easter Island.Credit: Andia/Universal Images Group via Getty In case you missed it, the end is […]
