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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 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIX– Imperial Longevity, ‘Collapse’ Causes, and Resource Finiteness
Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. CLICK HERE I thought I would try something a little different in this Contemplation as I work on reading and summarising a chapter from a monograph–Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation. Today’s Contemplation is a Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence-generated summary of three specific questions pertaining to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLVIII–What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future September 1, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. What Do Previous Experiments in Societal Complexity Suggest About ‘Managing’ Our Future Viewing ‘degrowth’ through my archaeology/anthropology lens (and primarily via archaeologist Joseph Tainter’s thesis laid out in The […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXC–Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXC–Beyond Collapse: Climate Change and Causality During the Middle Holocene Climatic Transition Tulum, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. This Contemplation comments upon and summarises a paper that considers prehistorical periods of rapid climatic transition and societal-level responses to the resulting environmental changes. I thought it interesting to review this research article […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIX–Energy Future, Part 4: Economic Manipulation
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCIX February 9, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 4: Economic Manipulation In Part 1, I argue that energy underpins everything, including human complex societies. In Part 2, I suggest that the increasing need for diminishing resources, especially finite or limited ‘renewable’ ones, invariably leads […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XC–A Societal Phase Transition This Way Comes
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XC January 10, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. A Societal Phase Transition This Way Comes The following contemplation shares my thoughts/response to The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article (another very worthwhile read) regarding the diminishing returns being increasingly encountered by non-renewable, renewable energy-harvesting technologies (aka ‘renewables’) — and, yes, I […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVI–Energy Future, Part 2: Competing Polities and Geopolitical Stress
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXXXVI December 28, 2022 (original posting date) Chitchen Itza, Mexico. (1986) Photo by author. Energy Future, Part 2: Competing Polities and Geopolitical Stress Part 2 of my multi-part contemplation on our energy future. It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. -various attributions (e.g., Niels Bohr, Samuel Goldwyn, Yogi Berra, Mark Twain, […]
Are We in the Early Stages of Civilizational Collapse? Plus, the Future of the Economy, and Why the World is Going Crazy
Are We in the Early Stages of Civilizational Collapse? Plus, the Future of the Economy, and Why the World is Going Crazy The other day, as I was doing my daily reading, I came across climate scientists, debating whether or not we faced civilizational collapse. It was interesting, and I want to take a sec […]
The World F-‘d Around, Now It’s Finding Out
THE WORLD F-’D AROUND, NOW IT’S FINDING OUT Well, everyone wanted to do what they wanted to do instead of what they needed to do, and this is the end result. It was inevitable. Neglecting our responsibilities on this earth only had one outcome, and it’s a living nightmare. I think it’s time we talked […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVI–Societal Collapse: The Past is Prologue
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVI Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Societal ‘Collapse: The Past is Prologue Today’s Contemplation has been once again prompted by the latest musings of The Honest Sorcerer. I believe their posts motivate me more than most others I read because we very often focus upon the same subject matter and appear, for […]
Collapse Is An Outcome, Not A Problem To Be Solved
Collapse Is An Outcome, Not A Problem To Be Solved Technology as dinosaur. Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash There is a rule in ecology called the maximum power principle formulated by Lokta in 1925. It can be summarized as follows: “The systems that survive in competition are those that develop more power inflow and use it best […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV–Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLIV Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Overreach And Diminishing Returns: Contributing To Complex Society Collapse For 10,000 Years Today’s very brief Contemplation is my comment on The Honest Sorcerer’s latest piece. U.S. Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler stated it so clearly in his treatise on war some 100 years ago. War […]
The Vulnerabilities Of A High-Tech Society
The Vulnerabilities Of A High-Tech Society In the title of this piece, I use the term, “high tech” however this is about the vulnerabilities of any advanced civilization. Such societies tend to be specialized with their members dependent on services and jobs being carried out by others in the community to provide the basic necessities […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
