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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI–The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXXI Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Politics of Dancing: The politicians are now dj’s… It seems nowadays we’re always trapped in the silly season of election campaigning. Perhaps my memory is foggy but where it used to be a short window of inane proclamations and ever-grander promises (that never […]
Predicting Financial Collapse (and what to do about it)
Predicting Financial Collapse (and what to do about it) Many people ask me about how to insulate themselves from a financial collapse of some kind or another. I am not a financial advisor, and my focus has always been on collaborative resilience, whereby collectives of people might cope better. But when pressed by friends on […]
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar … and mull over survival. I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically different trajectories since first meeting back in the ’80s. Over the decades, Dan […]
An Ecocentric Second Age of Enlightenment
An Ecocentric Second Age of Enlightenment Five Tenets for a Livable Future The Age of Enlightenment, spanning the late 17th to the early 19th centuries, was a pivotal period in human history characterized by a profound transformation in thought, culture, and society. Intellectuals and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, and John Locke championed reason, […]
The Master’s Checklists for Collapse
The Master’s Checklists for Collapse An A.I. assistant provides truly useful advice about practical resilience and “inner work.” I am continuing my investigation into A.I. as a potentially helpful resource for humane purposes like philosophizing and promoting collapse-awareness. So far, so good! I am fancifully calling the A.I. system “Master,” after the Go-playing program AlphaGo, which played online […]
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett
The Thermodynamics of Degrowth | Tim Garrett Collapse and Recovery What’s the relationship between our energy consumption, our material footprint and our economies? Tim Garrett and I come to refer to these as “the holy trinity”. Tim is a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Utah, and over two years ago, he joined me […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIX–Archaeology of Overshoot and Collapse It’s been a few months since I last posted a Contemplation. There are a variety of reasons for this. I’ve been ‘distracted’ by the preparations in my gardens for the upcoming growing season. The unseasonably warm weather here north of Toronto allowed me to get outside […]
Living with/in Fear
Living with/in Fear There are more like you than you think. Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor / Unsplash “I think 3C is being hopeful and conservative.” – Ruth Cerezo-Mota an expert in climate modelling at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Sign up for Collapse 2050 The unspoken truth about humanity’s frightening future. Subscribe No […]
The Biggest Risks of This Decade
The Biggest Risks of This Decade Since the 2020 pandemic, many things have changed, but nothing more than geopolitics. Wars and clashes that used to be largely national have given way to more regional conflicts that threaten to upend the current world order. The Ukraine War and Israel-Iran conflicts have the potential to lead to […]
Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome
Does Inflation Lead To Civilizational Collapse? A Look At Rome With the US national debt at $34 trillion and climbing, USD reserve status under pressure, inflation destroying standards of living, and the Biden administration stoking costly war on several fronts, perhaps it’s time for more thoughts on the Roman empire. In a Tuesday thread posted to […]
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up
Even The Millionaires Are Fed Up How to speak to a hostile crowd Some weeks ago, I was sitting on stage with an economist from the World Trade Organisation and a banker from UBS. We were opening a small, one-day conference for the private aviation industry, and I had been invited to challenge the prevailing […]
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt?
The Collapse Is Coming. Will Humanity Adapt? An evolutionary biologist and a science fiction writer walk into a bar… and mull over survival. I’ve known Dan Brooks for 40 years now. Somehow we’re still talking to each other. We’ve followed radically different trajectories since first meeting back in the ’80s. Dan built a truly impressive […]
10 Premises Behind Collapse 2050
10 Premises Behind Collapse 2050 What does “collapse” mean? What will the downfall of civilization look like? What am I suggesting people do? What if I’m wrong? Photo by Yaoqi / Unsplash People look at my username on Twitter or title of this website and jump to conclusions about the way I think. Some ‘get’ me straight […]
Walking Away From The Marketplace
Walking Away From The Marketplace The recent sequence of posts here on lenocracy (from Latin leno, a pimp)—that is, the form of political economy in which productive economic activity gets squeezed dry by various kinds of legally mandated pimping—has fielded a response I find interesting. Next to nobody has tried to argue that lenocracy is […]
Links of the Month: May 2024
Links of the Month: May 2024 Public Service Announcement: If reading my links of the month is unbearably depressing for you, just skip down to the very bottom of this post and at least read Lyz Lenz’s little story on Mothering. Everything else here will probably be the same next month, anyway. cartoon by Michael Leunig No, […]
