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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLX–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLX– Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 Have you noticed that when a society begins to falter, to move sideways, its ruling elite rarely if ever respond by looking in the mirror and asking, “What are we doing wrong?” No–instead they ask, “How can we maintain our positions […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIX– On the Limits of Ecological Recovery: A Response to a Thoughtful Challenge
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIX– On the Limits of Ecological Recovery: A Response to a Thoughtful Challenge In my recent Contemplation on affordability, collapse, and the architecture of hydrocarbon decline I argued that the ecological conditions necessary for the reemergence of a large, complex society are unlikely to be met after our global, industrial ones […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVIII–On the Hunger of Empires
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVIII–On the Hunger of Empires While I should be out in my gardens beginning the late-summer preparations I typically do at this time of year to get ready for our lovely Canadian winters, I have chosen instead to quickly pen a Contemplation focused on imperial collapse following a conversation I was […]
The Bulletin: August 20–26, 2026
The Bulletin: August 20–26, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Collapsing Now, Gone in 2030 — Johnny Silverhands Jeff Currie: Forget $91 Brent, The Real Crisis Is $170 Diesel | ZeroHedge More on the Next ‘Super El Niño’ Energy: Preparations and Possibilities Revisited — […]
The Bulletin: August 13–19, 2026
The Bulletin: August 13–19, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Articles of Interest: August 12–18, 2026 Another Earthshaking Financial Collapse Like 2000 and 2008 is Underway Risk Kills. Will We Ever Learn? Could the Crashing Yen Trigger Hyperinflation in the U.S.? — Global Research […]
The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026
The Bulletin: August 6–12, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. BP Retreats Further From Green Energy With Archaea Sale | ZeroHedge How Economic Power Has Shifted Over The Past 200 Years | ZeroHedge De-industrialization | Damn the Matrix The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much […]
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. US Corn Conditions Suffer Sharpest Deterioration In Three Years, Fueling Food Inflation Fear | ZeroHedge A Rights Revolution For Nature Exercise works for depression. So why isn’t it treated like real medicine? […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII-Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII- Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2 Oil Production’s Seneca Cliff In Part One of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I attempted to lay out the foundational components of humanity’s hydrocarbon predicament by looking at the geologic, energetic, and systemic realities. I asserted that hydrocarbons are not just one […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 The Forgotten Foundation My most recent Contemplations have discussed the foundational bases of modernity’s predicament: ecological overshoot, physical limits to growth, the maximum power principle, the mind over reality transition, progress traps, and wetiko. I’ve risked minimising what is perhaps one of our most crucial material aspects in […]
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Controlling the World Island I’m Being Fined $49,890.13 for Defending a Sacred Site Evolutionary Shrinkflation — The George Tsakraklides View Why the Media Needs Objectivity — Lean Out with Tara Henley The Bigger Condo […]
The Bulletin: July 8–14, 2026
The Bulletin: July 8–14, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Decline on the World Stage — global geopolitics Could there be some beauty in collapse? — Prof Jem Bendell Your Phone Is Now Your Suitcase: Why Every U.S. Traveler Should Prepare for a Border […]
The Bulletin: June 17–23, 2026
The Bulletin: June 17–23, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Illusion of Freedom — The Most Effective Prison Is the One You Can’t See — Global geopolitics The Engineered Barrel — Part I: Matt Simmons, aging reservoirs, and the new physics of global oil — Oil & Gas 360 Are […]
The Bulletin: June 10–16, 2026
The Bulletin: June 10–16, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Collapse Chronicle 06.10.26 Shell’s Toxic Legacy in Nigeria — by Olanrewaju Suraju Why ‘Community’ Fails: Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants to Be a Villager Is AI Reversing Anti-Progress or Is It Accelerating It? […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIV– We’re Saved! The Finale: All Aboard the Salvation Bus.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIV– We’re Saved! The Finale: All Aboard the Salvation Bus. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalising animal. -Robert A. Heinlein Across the almost two dozen We’re Saved! Contemplations I’ve penned over the last ten months in an attempt to analyse “solutions” to humanity’s predicaments a consistent and […]
