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The Emergence of the Superorganism: Susan Kucera’s Movie “Living in The Future’s Past”

The Emergence of the Superorganism: Susan Kucera’s Movie “Living in The Future’s Past” Imagine you are an ant. All you have seen in your life are only other ants, touching their antennas and moving on. Then, one day, the Ant God, who is benevolent and merciful, lifts you up in the air and shows you […]

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New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire

New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire The reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire have remained a mystery for modern historians, just as for the Romans themselves. Yet, recent data from the Greenland ice core provide us with new data on collapse of the Empire, showing […]

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Why Agriculture and Forestry Are Dead or Obsolete the Way They Are Practiced Nowadays

Why Agriculture and Forestry Are Dead or Obsolete the Way They Are Practiced Nowadays ATTENTION: SOIL AGRICULTURE INCLUDING FORESTRY, AS NOW PRACTICED, IS DEAD OR OBSOLETE… Dead if we keep doing it with our current dependency on mined finite-supply mineral fertilizers and obsolete if we hope to maintain even the current population… NO MATTER WHETHER […]

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Five Things You Should Know About Collapse

Five Things You Should Know About Collapse The Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca was perhaps the first in history to identify and discuss collapse and to note that “the way to ruin is rapid.” From Seneca’s idea, Ugo Bardi coined the term “Seneca Effect” to describe all cases where things go bad fast and used […]

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New Rare Earth Resources: A Non-Solution For A Non-Problem

New Rare Earth Resources: A Non-Solution For A Non-Problem Above: the report on the “Financial Post” of April 13, 2018. The study that the report describes is not just a bad paper, but something highlighting the shortcomings of our whole society in understanding and managing mineral depletion. Any report on mineral availability that starts with […]

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The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation

The Fisherman and the Farmer – A Tale About Overexploitation Ilaria Perissi and Nicola Calisi playing the fisherman and his wife in a theatrical piece shown in Florence in 2017. The piece was based on the story told below (text by Ugo Bardi). The origin of this story is told here. Once upon a time, […]

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Negative Emission Technologies: can we learn from the Ancient Egyptians how to manage the global commons?

Negative Emission Technologies: can we learn from the Ancient Egyptians how to manage the global commons? The ancient Egyptians knew how to manage the commons. A single central authority managed the Nile river, to make sure that everybody had enough water for their needs. Could we do the same for our atmospheric commons? Above, a […]

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“Hope is not weak. Hope swims” – A great book by Solitaire Townsend.

“Hope is not weak. Hope swims” – A great book by Solitaire Townsend. I had big hopes for this book, “The Happy Hero” that Solitaire Townsend published in October 2017. But when the book arrived I was immediately put off by the combination of the cover and the title. I don’t know about you, but […]

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Nuclear Fusion: is it still worth investing on it in an age of cheap renewable energy?

Nuclear Fusion: is it still worth investing on it in an age of cheap renewable energy? ITER TOKAMAK, looking carefully, at the bottom right circled in red, a human in a yellow jacket. The probable size of a magnetic confinement fusion reactor is huge and it’s at the core of most of its problems. My view […]

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The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions. How to destroy the world’s forests

The road to the Seneca Cliff is paved with evil intentions. How to destroy the world’s forests The oldest stories of human lore have to do with cutting trees and with the disasters that followed as a consequence. Above, Legendary Sumerian heroes Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the guardian of the trees, Huwawa (image source). Several […]

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Photovoltaics? Who in the world would want to spend money on such a silly idea?

Photovoltaics? Who in the world would want to spend money on such a silly idea? The “Solar Roadways” plant in Idaho in an image from the “EmphaseEnergy” site. The performance of this expensive plant is abysmally low and, with the best of good will, I can’t see it as anything but a propaganda stunt to […]

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If you can’t see it, it can kill you. Propaganda, for instance.

If you can’t see it, it can kill you. Propaganda, for instance. If you never took this test before, spend two minutes on it before reading the text below. The “selective attention” test you see above was developed in 1999 by Christopher Chablis and Daniel Simons. It shows how people have difficulties in perceiving the […]

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Saving the World: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? A Review of the Latest Report to the Club of Rome, “Come On”

Saving the World: Top-Down or Bottom-Up? A Review of the Latest Report to the Club of Rome, “Come On” Come On: Capitalism, Short-termism and the Destruction of the Planet. A new Report from the Club of Rome. By Ernst von Weizsaecker and Anders Wijkman – Book Review by Ugo Bardi Nearly half a century has […]

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The Seneca Ruin of the Dinosaurs – a Report from Berlin

The Seneca Ruin of the Dinosaurs – a Report from Berlin The death of the dinosaurs as shown in the 1940 movie “Fantasia” by Walt Disney. An incredibly powerful and moving scene – a true Seneca ruin for the poor creatures walking in a hot and dry landscape. This scene is also reasonably realistic: at […]

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The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse

The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse I gave a presentation focused on the Seneca Effect at the School of Physics in Les Houches this March. Here I show various concepts associated with overshoot and collapse with the help of “Amelie the Amoeba” (This picture was not taken in Les Houches, but in an […]

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