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The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025
The Bulletin: January 9-15, 2025 The Falsification of Everything | how to save the world Emissions Are SO Not the Only Problem with Cars Rhyming History: Weimar Germany’s Hyperinflation At least 6 dead, more than 300 000 without power as major winter storm sweeps through U.S. Net Energy Cliff & the Collapse of Civilization Quarter […]
The World Has Already Ended
The World Has Already Ended Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don’t know it yet. “You say the ocean’s rising, Like I give a shit, You say the whole world’s ending, Honey, it already did.” – All Eyes On Me […]
The First Signs of Civilization’s Collapse?
The First Signs of Civilization’s Collapse? New Video Link! Sorry! Draft script: From Tom Dispatch on 17 August 2023 comes a story headlined Michael Klare, A World on the Edge of … Collapse? The article is short, and it introduces a much longer article by Michael Klare, professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. I’ll […]
The Rise & Fall of Empires, Nations, & City States has been Going on for Thousands of Years – It’s Just Our Turn!
The Rise & Fall of Empires, Nations, & City States has been Going on for Thousands of Years – It’s Just Our Turn! COMMENT: Marty: I was re-reading Herodotus and saw early in his book a reference to the rise and fall of civilizations pertinent to the concept of capital flows: Herodotus, Histories 1:5 “For many […]
The Decline & Fall of Civilization is Upon Us
The Decline & Fall of Civilization is Upon Us COMMENT: Good afternoon I would like to share a testimony to Marty: I am french and have attended a conference of technology in Germany last weekend, in which Barack Obama attended as a guest speaker.Though I am not American nor Republican, I was really surprised by […]
The Mariner’s Rule
The Mariner’s Rule One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all. It’s a valid question, and it deserves a serious answer. Now of course not […]
The central contradiction in the modern outlook: ‘Planet of the Apes’ vs ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
The central contradiction in the modern outlook: ‘Planet of the Apes’ vs ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ When talking about the perils of climate change or resource depletion, soil degradation or fisheries collapse, water pollution or nuclear waste–how annoying it is to have one listener respond dismissively, “They’ll figure something out. They always have.” It’s a […]
The Climate Mash
The Climate Mash Our favorite subjects for this blog are climate change, energy and civilization collapse. We spend equal amounts of time describing the remedies for these evils — permaculture, ecovillage, biochar, and carbon farming, for instance, because we hold out a sliver of hope humanity still might be able to redirect our otherwise dismal […]
