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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVII–Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVII July 2, 2022 (original posting date) Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’ A quick morning contemplation based upon an article posted to the Peak Oil Facebook Group I participate in. Almost everywhere the pursuit of the infinite growth chalice (primarily by the ruling elite) and/or population growth […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVI–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Six — Sociopolitical ‘Collapse’ and Ecological Overshoot
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LVI June 29, 2022 (original posting date) Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Six — Sociopolitical ‘Collapse’ and Ecological Overshoot This contemplation is my concluding post regarding several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In the initial […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LV–Expediting ‘Collapse’: Financialisation of Our Economic System
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LV Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Expediting ‘Collapse’: Financialisation of Our Economic System A very short contemplation that deviates from the ‘series’ I’ve been writing on several psychological mechanisms that impact our cognitions regarding overshoot and collapse. This is a brief comment (with a slight edit) on an article by The Honest […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIV–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Five — Justification Hypothesis
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIV June 18, 2022 (original posting date) Rome, Italy (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Five — Justification Hypothesis This contemplation is the fifth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIII June 11, 2022 (original posting date) Santorini, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Four — Cognitive Dissonance This contemplation is the fourth part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII–Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LII June 7, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Cognition and Belief Systems: Part Three — Groupthink This contemplation is the third part of a look at several psychological mechanisms at play in our thinking about ecological overshoot and the accompanying societal ‘collapse’ that will eventually result. In Part One, […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIX–Sometimes People Don’t Want to Hear the Truth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLIX Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Sometimes People Don’t Want to Hear the Truth Today’s Contemplation has been prompted by a request to engage someone in ‘an academic lesson’ regarding the maladaptation of pursuing complex technologies in an attempt to ‘solve’ our ‘problem’ of climate change. As Frederick Nietzsche has been […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII–We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVIII Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author We Are Not Prepared For Shutting Down the Fossil Fuel Industry To be or not to be, that is the question… Prince Hamlet’s well-known soliloquy in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is apropos to a question I have been pondering: should we shut down immediately the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII–Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVII April 13, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Faith in Government: A Misplaced Belief Today’s contemplation has been prompted by an article by ecologist and educator Richard Heinberg (see link below). Infinite growth. Finite planet. What could possibly go wrong? As our awareness of the various existential […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI–Preparing For Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLVI April 4, 2022 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Preparing For Collapse A contemplation prompted by a couple of posts I read early this morning. One was a list of actionable ideas for preparing for Peak Oil and the other an article on the mainstreaming of ‘Doomsday Prepping’. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLII–Criticising ‘Renewables’ is Not a Sin
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLII March 1, 2022 (original posting date) Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Criticising ‘Renewables’ is Not a Sin The following ‘contemplation’ follows on the heels of a discussion I began with another within a Facebook group I am a member of. The post and dialogue can be found here. Suffice it to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL–The Road Not Taken
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XL February 19, 2022 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took […]



