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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1

July 25, 2025 / 2 Comments on Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1 Human cognition and the many psychological mechanisms that impact our species’ comprehension, emotions, and beliefs about the world are fascinating subjects, as is epistemology (aka the ‘theory of knowledge’). Despite being mostly enthralled with biology during my late […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIII–We Must Destroy the Earth To Save It

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIII– We Must Destroy the Earth To Save ItIf you’re new to my writing, check out this synopsis. As I have done a handful of times in the past, I offer some conversations I had with others regarding a post shared on Facebook. Take from it what you will… I would […]

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The Bulletin: August 8-15, 2024

August 15, 2024

The Bulletin: August 8-15, 2024 Introducing The Bulletin, a collation of recent articles focusing upon those predicaments flowing from the ongoing collapse of our global, industrialised complex society. Coming Clean on Clean Energy: It’s a Dirty Business | RealClearWire The Energy Debate: Fanboys, Fangirls, and the Real Cost of Pollution | Art Berman More Bargaining […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh C–Grieving: A Natural Response To Recognition Of Growth Limits

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh C February 11, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Grieving: A Natural Response To Recognition Of Growth Limits Denial, anger, bargaining, and depression in the face of grievous reality is everywhere; and we all do it to some extent. Some move through the stages more quickly while others […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXV–Decoupling Energy Use From Growth: More Bargaining

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXV November 9, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Decoupling Energy Use From Growth: More Bargaining Today’s short piece is a comment I shared on an article by Nathan Surendran that highlights a debunking of the idea that energy can be decoupled from growth and thus reduce carbon […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII–Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite

January 28, 2024

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII August 11, 2022 (original posting date) Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Anonymous[1] I’ve been reflecting a lot recently (for years to be honest) on the ever-present […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLI–More Bargaining: Doughnut Economics

January 20, 2024

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XLI February 22, 2022 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author More Bargaining: Doughnut Economics The following ‘contemplation’ was prompted by an article that was shared to a Facebook group I am a member of regarding ‘Doughnut Economics’ and its possible role in addressing our ecological overshoot. While I have not read extensively the […]

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Hope Dies, Gold Rises

December 5, 2023

Hope Dies, Gold Rises The primary stages of grief include: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. When it comes to grieving over the slow demise of the American economy, sovereign IOU/USD and the absolute failure of our “re-election-only-focused” policy makers, these stages of grief are easy to see yet easier to ignore. But false […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII–The Predicament of Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’, Especially Via ‘Renewables’

November 16, 2023

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII August 10, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Predicament of Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’, Especially Via ‘Renewables’ Today’s very brief ‘contemplation’ is a comment I penned on an article that discusses the limits to growth we have probably surpassed, Kuber-Ross’s stages of grief (especially denial and bargaining) that the […]

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Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining?

November 14, 2023

Why are “Solutions” Really Just Bargaining? Flag Rock Recreation Area, Norton, Virginia I have tried to point out the reality throughout this entire blog that what we face moving forward is a set of predicaments with outcomes, not problems with solutions. Therefore, prescribing different ideas (whether they are actually labeled “solutions” or not is more […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVIII–Most People Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed

October 30, 2023

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLVIII Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Most People Don’t Want Their Illusions Destroyed Another one of those conversations with someone at the Degrowth Facebook Group I am a member of… JM: I’ve just had a lengthy debate with good-willed people who are serious proponents of a rapid transition to renewables. People actually do […]

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Bargaining and Degrowth

Bargaining and Degrowth Gazebo at Fort Macon, North Carolina Once again, new material forces me to write a new article to disclose the new information (OK, honestly, I chose to write this article, but you already knew that). I often simply add updates (both marked and unmarked) to previous articles, but this particular scenario needed its own […]

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Bargaining to Maintain Civilization

December 30, 2022

Bargaining to Maintain Civilization Happy Winter/Summer Solstice!!As anyone reading my articles often already knows, ecological overshoot is the master predicament causing many different symptom predicaments. I constantly see many people blaming emissions or greed or capitalism or governments or oil companies or fossil fuels (and on and on…) for causing climate change (or their favorite symptom predicament). Playing the blame game […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII

August 10, 2021

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Today’s very brief ‘contemplation’ is a comment I penned on an article that discusses the limits to growth we have probably surpassed, Kuber-Ross’s stages of grief (especially denial and bargaining) that the world seems to be experiencing in the wake of increasing awareness of our existential […]

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12-minute video: 5 stages of human awakening: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance; and why your leadership matters for the revolution just ahead

February 13, 2016

12-minute video: 5 stages of human awakening: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance; and why your leadership matters for the revolution just ahead Those of us relatively awake have gone through some form of the five stages of grieving, and observe fellow humans mostly stuck in its first stage: denial. As .01% Emperor’s New Clothes obvious crimes centering in […]

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