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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI–Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXI December 4, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Diminishing Returns On Investments In Complexity Another very brief contemplation prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest writing regarding our energy predicament. What you have described so well is perhaps the conundrum faced by every complex society throughout history: diminishing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX–Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXX November 28, 2023 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Ignoring Ecological Systems Destruction This contemplation shares a response of mine to another within an ongoing discussion regarding a Facebook post by Clean Energy Canada[1] highlighting one of Canada’s major energy companies’ offshore wind farm projects. This ‘think tank’ […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIX–Non-Renewable Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHT): A Paradox For Our Times?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIX November 24, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Non-Renewable Renewable Energy-Harvesting Technologies (NRREHT): A Paradox For Our Times? A short contemplation after reading Richard Heinberg’s latest article and the apparent paradox that is evident in the musings of a number of writers in the energy-ecology nexus. Paradox: “…having qualities […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII–Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVIII November 20, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Personal Experience With ‘Renewables’ Let me begin this contemplation by stating that I do not hate ‘renewables’ nor am I a fossil fuel industry shill (the two common accusations lobbed at me whenever I criticise the notion of a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVII–It’s Too Late For Managed Degrowth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVII November 15, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. It’s Too Late For Managed Degrowth This contemplation is a ‘short’ comment I shared on an article by Martin Tye that showed up on my Medium feed and I read this morning. It asks an important question in whether […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI–Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXVI November 12, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Roadblocks To Our ‘Renewable’ Energy Transition: Debt, Resource Constraints, and Diminishing Returns Today’s contemplation is a quick rundown of three of the roadblocks I see preventing us from achieving the utopian dream of a seamless ‘clean’ energy transition from […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIV–Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIV November 7, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Our Ruling Class: Always Pushing In the Wrong Direction A very brief contemplation that is a comment I posted on the Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece of writing. It’s pretty self-evident (at least to everyone outside of the hypnotic manipulation […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIII–Pessimists Are Optimists That Have All the Facts
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXIII October 31, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Pessimists Are Optimists That Have All the Facts This contemplation has been prompted by another great article by The Honest Sorcerer. If you’ve not read their work, I highly recommend it. A couple of thoughts in reading your splendid […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII–Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXII October 19, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Differing Opinions on ‘Renewables’ While I work on a longer (perhaps several part) contemplation regarding the myth of infinite growth on a finite planet that infiltrates and dominates many mainstream narratives — especially economic in nature — I thought I would share a […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI–The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXI October 10, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Pursuit Of ‘Renewables’: Putting Us Further Into Ecological Overshoot Today’s very brief contemplation has been prompted by a couple of recent articles/posts (see links below) by thinkers/writers whose works/ideas I have followed for some time and respect greatly — but […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXX–Democracy: It’s Not What You Think It Is
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXX October 6, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Democracy: It’s Not What You Think It Is Today’s contemplation stems from a recent article about Canadian politics that has prompted me to reflect further on sociopolitics and belief systems[1], but not so much about the actual content of […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXVIII–Growth is Great! Except It Isn’t.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXVIII (originally posted September 21, 2022) Chitchen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Growth is Great! Except It Isn’t. Today’s contemplation is an open letter I am sending (perhaps presenting in person, I haven’t yet decided[1]) to my local town’s council and a developer regarding a ‘proposed’ development that is moving ahead directly […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII–Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII Knossos, Greece (1993). Photo by author. Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’ A few brief Facebook conversations I have had the past couple of days while I work on a longer Contemplation regarding binary thinking, particularly as it applies to sociopolitics. The first shared this article featuring a picture of a massive […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXVI–Surplus Energy From Hydrocarbons: Another Predicament Catalyst
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXVI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Surplus Energy From Hydrocarbons: Another Predicament Catalyst Today’s contemplation is in response to an article posted on the site Zerohedge, the orientation of many of the comments in response to that article (and increasingly by Zerohedge readers/commenters[1]), and a conversation I had with friends recently on […]
