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The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025

The Bulletin: September 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. The Disruptor: William Rees Knows How to Save the World Slow down or die (degrowth, collapse, strategy) Collapse and the Consensus Trance What Happens After Humans Go Extinct How Water Shapes Our […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVIII–Keep Calm and Carry On…Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 1 Human cognition and the many psychological mechanisms that impact our species’ comprehension, emotions, and beliefs about the world are fascinating subjects, as is epistemology (aka the ‘theory of knowledge’). Despite being mostly enthralled with biology during my late […]

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The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025

The Bulletin: July 16-22, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Is There Enough Water to Quench the Thirst of AI Super Data Centers? | The Epoch Times Let me explain exactly what is going on with Bayer’s effort to enact a wide-ranging […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIII–We Must Destroy the Earth To Save It

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIII– We Must Destroy the Earth To Save ItIf you’re new to my writing, check out this synopsis. As I have done a handful of times in the past, I offer some conversations I had with others regarding a post shared on Facebook. Take from it what you will… I would […]

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Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick

Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick Subscribe I write a lot more about the problems our society faces than I do about solutions. I do this because we are so far from being able to implement real solutions that most people don’t even really know the problems exist […]

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A World At War (Again)

A WORLD AT WAR (AGAIN) World War III has already begun, and not much can stop it. That is an unpopular statement, for several reasons. Chief among them is the denial people are afflicted with when it comes to considering uncomfortable truths. But no matter what, the coming years will change the face of the […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh C–Grieving: A Natural Response To Recognition Of Growth Limits

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh C February 11, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. Grieving: A Natural Response To Recognition Of Growth Limits Denial, anger, bargaining, and depression in the face of grievous reality is everywhere; and we all do it to some extent. Some move through the stages more quickly while others […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCV–We All Believe What We Want To Believe

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XCV January 31, 2023 (original posting date) Monte Alban, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. We All Believe What We Want To Believe The following Contemplation is my comment in response to a thought-provoking post I read by Dave Pollard at his site How to Save the World. Great read, thanks for sharing. A […]

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Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero

Minimisation Is The New Denial – climate scientists and the false hope of net-zero The temperature extremes of 2023 and those coming in 2024, tell us we face the possibility of climate catastrophes that cause the collapse of whole societies and threaten the lives of millions, not at some distant point in our children’s futures but within our own lifetimes. […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII–Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh LXIII August 11, 2022 (original posting date) Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. Primary Motivation For Society’s Elite It ain’t what you know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Anonymous[1] I’ve been reflecting a lot recently (for years to be honest) on the ever-present […]

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Hope Dies, Gold Rises

Hope Dies, Gold Rises The primary stages of grief include: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. When it comes to grieving over the slow demise of the American economy, sovereign IOU/USD and the absolute failure of our “re-election-only-focused” policy makers, these stages of grief are easy to see yet easier to ignore. But false […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX–Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXX September 21, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Ecological Overshoot and Political Responses Today’s post has been prompted by some thoughts regarding the inability of our political systems to respond in a timely manner to our plight of ecological overshoot penned by Rex Weyler, co-founder of Greenpeace, and posted by Alice […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIV–Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXIV Knossos, Greece (1993). Photo by author. Growth and Denial: A Bad Combination Today’s Contemplation is a glimpse into some conversation between myself and another around growth, denial, and differences in what can/should be advocated for. Post by GW: Just saw the sign coming in to town which reads “Country close to the […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII–The Predicament of Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’, Especially Via ‘Renewables’

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVIII August 10, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author The Predicament of Ecological Overshoot Cannot Be ‘Solved’, Especially Via ‘Renewables’ Today’s very brief ‘contemplation’ is a comment I penned on an article that discusses the limits to growth we have probably surpassed, Kuber-Ross’s stages of grief (especially denial and bargaining) that the […]

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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXII–Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXII Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Reality is an Inconvenience to Beliefs Today’s brief Contemplation was prompted by The Honest Sorcerer’s latest article that looks at the latest energy ‘breakthrough’ (seems there is one every other week) and how it’s going to save modern civilisation, our species, and the planet. In this […]

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