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The Bulletin: May 8-14, 2025

May 14, 2025

The Bulletin: May 8-14, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. “The Fourth Turning Is Now Raging…” And Neil Howe Warns “It’s Gone Global” | ZeroHedge Disaster of Diesel’s Decrease Musical Chairs on the Global Chessboard: Greenland, Panama, and the Coming Resource Grab The Fall […]

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What It Means To Be “Collapse-Aware”

March 10, 2024

What It Means To Be “Collapse-Aware” Becoming collapse-aware can make you feel like you’re going insane. You’d be crazy if it didn’t. I became collapse-aware a few years ago, and it completely changed my life. Collapse-aware is a term that has become much more popular in recent years, especially among climate activists. Some people prefer […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIX–Infinite growth. Finite planet. What could possibly go wrong? Part One

February 10, 2024

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LIX July 13, 2022 (original posting date) Arles, France (1984). Photo by author. Infinite growth. Finite planet. What could possibly go wrong? Part One Today’s contemplation (a two-parter) was begun a few months ago but I’m just now getting around to completing and posting it. As often happens with me and my ADHD, […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV–More Greenwashing: ‘Sustainable’ Development

October 25, 2023

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author More Greenwashing: ‘Sustainable’ Development This contemplation was prompted by an article regarding an ‘independent’ think tank’s report that presented the argument that government funding of the oil and gas industry needed to be shifted towards ‘green/clean’ alternatives. I’ve included a few hyperlinks to sites that […]

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Overshoot: Cognitive obsolescence and the population conundrum

April 5, 2023

Overshoot: Cognitive obsolescence and the population conundrum Abstract The human enterprise is in overshoot; we exceed the long-term carrying capacity of Earth and are degrading the biophysical basis of our own existence. Despite decades of cumulative evidence, the world community has failed dismally in efforts to address this problem. I argue that cultural evolution and […]

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May 23, 2021

Blip Chris Clugston on Overshoot:

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Bodhi Paul Chefurka: Carrying capacity, overshoot and sustainability

November 12, 2019

Bodhi Paul Chefurka: Carrying capacity, overshoot and sustainability *** Ever since the writing of Thomas Malthus in the early 1800s, and especially since Paul Ehrlich’s publication of “The Population Bomb”  in 1968, there has been a lot of learned skull-scratching over what the sustainable human population of Planet Earth might “really” be over the long haul. […]

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Ted Nordhaus Is Wrong: We Are Exceeding Earth’s Carrying Capacity

July 26, 2018

Ted Nordhaus Is Wrong: We Are Exceeding Earth’s Carrying Capacity The co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute has a cheery vision of the future. If only that vision were plausible. IN HIS ARTICLE, “The Earth’s Carrying Capacity for Human Life is Not Fixed,” Ted Nordhaus, co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute, a California-based energy and environment think […]

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Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience

May 24, 2018

Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience As a writer focused on the global sustainability crisis, I’m often asked how to deal with the stress of knowing—knowing, that is, that we humans have severely overshot Earth’s long-term carrying capacity, making a collapse of both civilization and Earth’s ecological systems likely; knowing that we are depleting […]

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An ecological view of Trump’s trade war

October 22, 2017

An ecological view of Trump’s trade war Whether you regard President Donald Trump’s rejection of America’s trade agreements as a good thing or a bad thing, few people understand what canceling them would mean. From an ecological point of view, abruptly pulling out of trade agreements, agreements which have resulted in innumerable long-term investments and […]

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Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration?

January 20, 2016

Why did everyone stop talking about Population & Immigration? [ I tried to summarize the 20 top reasons why population growth was abandoned by environmental groups and received little coverage in the news media the past 40 years.  I highly recommend reading Beck and Kolankiewicz (2000) “The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization” […]

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As Night Closes In

February 5, 2015

As Night Closes In I was saddened to learn a few days ago, via a phone call from a fellow author, that William R. Catton Jr. died early last month, just short of his 89th birthday. Some of my readers will have no idea who he was; others may dimly recall that I’ve mentioned him […]

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Visualizing Peak Popopulation | Zero Hedge

November 29, 2014

Visualizing Peak Popopulation | Zero Hedge. Even with having existed for millions of years, the process for humans to reach 1 billion in population was long and arduous. It is only about 12,000 years ago that humans started engaging in sedentary agriculture. This allowed humans to settle and consistently produce food, rather than hunt and gather […]

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