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The Bulletin: November 19-25, 2025
The Bulletin: November 19-25, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Living well within limits – by Catherine Knight How to Reverse the Massive Worldwide Loss of Soil Moisture, and Why … What Is a City? Archaeological and Historical Perspectives As Energy Costs […]
The Bulletin: October 15-21, 2025
The Bulletin: October 15-21, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Wellbeing: Vitamin D2 or D3? – by Robert W Malone MD, MS Concerns Mount Over Europe’s Below-Average NatGas Storage Levels Ahead Of Winter | ZeroHedge Britain Set to Outlaw Fracking After Decades […]
The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025
The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman Why There Will Be No Energy Transition | by Eric Lee | Sep, 2025 | Medium Update: Why We Need Forests Renewables, carbon […]
The Bulletin: July 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: July 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. CO2 is Not Good for Your Health! – by Ugo Bardi Peak Shale Amid Maximum Pessimism Climate Change: An Unwelcome Future – Ecosophia Understanding the Electricity Grid: How It Works, Its Key […]
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024 What Won’t Happen Trump’s Bold Energy Gamble: It’s Not What You Think | Art Berman We already have a date for the zenith of civilization: 2025-2026 – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse The Geopolitics of Climate Change || Peter Zeihan The longest 10 minutes of your life have just […]
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025 Collapse or Extinction: The Unholy Double Bind of the 21st Century US Will Likely Stop Buying Oil From Venezuela: Trump | The Epoch Times The End of the Regenerative Illusion? Germany’s Outgoing Economy Minister Warns Europe Not to Over-Rely on US Energy | The Epoch Times Modern Civilization is Proving […]
July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – […]
Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please?
Could We Go Back to the 1950s, Please? On radical acceptance and energy cannibalism Saying sorry might not work this time. Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash How come that we always end up discussing how to do what we do differently — like how to become sustainable, or how fast should we “transition” to “renewables” etc. — and never ever if […]
This Is What Collapse Looks Like
This Is What Collapse Looks Like Every day now, the news is replete with evidence that, everywhere, things are falling apart faster and faster, and nothing of consequence is being, or can be, done about it. Every civilization collapses, but the collapse of our current global industrial civilization is occurring at a breathtaking and accelerating […]
Could We Do Civilization Better?
Could We Do Civilization Better? Photo by Willian Justen de Vasconcellos on Unsplash There seems to be a persistent mental bug preventing us from building a sustainable civilization. So far I have been focusing on the cultural, technological and political aspects of how and why each and every technological civilization ended up in ruins, and why ours is […]
The Destiny of Civilization
The Destiny of Civilization From the cave to the stars…? Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash We live in dangerous times. Everything seems to be out of normal: stagnating economies, inflation, wars and an unfolding ecological and climate disaster. This is clearly not how things ought to be… While many just wave a hand and say, we will […]
How Might We Undermine the PMC?
How Might We Undermine the PMC? Fourteen years ago, I wrote a very long article that became the lion’s share of Chapter Two of Keith Farnish’s book Underminers. My article was about the Tools of Disconnection — the cultural mechanisms by which we became disconnected from each other and the more-than-human world, and hence willing and able […]
Collapse & Camping Skills?
Collapse & Camping Skills? Why I Talk About Operational Capabilities of Our Communities Imagine a world where the grating buzz of civilization has quieted, where the conveniences we once took for granted—clean running water at the turn of a handle, shelves stocked with food at every corner, the comforting glow of streetlights guiding our way […]
