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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– We’re Saved! Ecomodernism.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– We’re Saved! Ecomodernism. Using the ‘questionnaire’ for evaluating supposed ‘solutions’ to humanity’s various predicaments that I proposed in my previous We’re Saved! Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I thought it might be appropriate to assess the environmental philosophy that tends to lead the way in pushing ‘technological problem-solving’: Ecomodernism. Let’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– Revisited: Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s)
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– Revisited: Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s) Over the past several months I have seen far more posts on my various media and social feeds focussed on the idea of societal ‘collapse/simplification/decline’. The reasons for this probably vary by author, but I would suspect that […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVII– We’re Saved! Wave Energy.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVII– We’re Saved! Wave Energy. A relatively recent article and some social media click-bait site posts have me exploring the potential of wave energy-harvesting technologies. But as with every such technological promise examined in the last dozen or so Contemplations, a close scrutiny of wave energy shows that it does not […]
The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025
The Bulletin: December 17-23, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A slow-motion water crisis is unfolding around the world Should We Be Talking About Collapse This Is What It Looks Like When Shit Hits The Fan Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance – […]
The Bulletin: December 3-9, 2025
The Bulletin: December 3-9, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Energy Secretary: Backup Generators At Commercial Sites Could Unlock 35 Nuclear Plants | ZeroHedge When the World is Already Gone – by Elisabeth Robson The False Promise of Enhanced Geothermal | Art […]
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 – […]
Defending degrowth at ecomodernism’s home
Defending degrowth at ecomodernism’s home In June, I was invited to speak at the eight annual Breakthrough Dialogue, an annual invite-only conference where accomplished thinkers debate how to achieve prosperity for humans and nature. The Breakthrough Institute, anecomodernist think-tank, welcomed my presence as a provocateur. I was to participate in a panel called “Decoupling vs. Degrowth”. My […]
Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash
Betting the Earth on a Game of Wrap-Cut-Smash Photo by Kevin Gill | CC BY 2.0 The Earth is having to deal with continuous, largely unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, along with soil degradation, mass extinction of species, destruction of ecosystems, and disruption of nitrogen, phosphorous, and water cycles. Meanwhile, efforts to head off the […]
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Last week I succumbed to a bad habit of mine that I’ve been trying to put behind me – leaving snarky comments on ecomodernist websites. I won’t dwell too much here on the ins and outs of the issues, or on ecomodernism itself – hell, there’s a whole page of this site devoted […]
Of boomers and doomers
Of boomers and doomers I suppose this is going over old ground, but I’ve been struck anew recently through various readings and conversations about the nature of techno-utopianism, and the difficulty we seem to have nowadays in breaking out of a boomer-doomer dualism – that is, either the (rather unhistorical) ‘boomer’ notion that human rationality, […]
Remembrance of Things Yet to Come
Remembrance of Things Yet to Come Remembrance of Things Yet to Come: A Response to Ted Trainer I’m going to make divert slightly from my previously anticipated track to respond to Ted Trainer’s valuable critique of Leigh Phillip’s much-maligned celebration of ecomodernism, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse-Porn Addicts (2015). I agree with much of Trainer’s critique, and am particularly thankful for […]
Retro-modernism
Retro-modernism I wrote a lengthy piece about modernism in my last post. Then I drafted another lengthy piece about its critical implications for so-called ‘ecomodernism’, which became so lengthy that it turned into two posts. Then I read over them, and felt – bored. So it’s probably time to move on from ecomodernism. But there’s […]
Magical mathematics
Magical mathematics Recently I got into a spot of bother on Twitter (it’s easily done) after I wrote an essay criticising an astonishingly bad newspaper article by one Leigh Phillips. The thing is, I hadn’t read his book and, silly me, I didn’t realise that you’re not supposed to criticise people’s newspaper articles until you’ve read their books. Well, […]
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips
Promethean porn and Malthusian mistakes: a letter to Leigh Phillips Dear Leigh Hello, my name is Mr Puck. I heard about your new book, Austerity Ecology and the Collapse Porn-Addicts: A Defence of Growth, Progress, Industry and Stuff. Now, a title involving the word ‘porn’ that isn’t actually about, er, porn usually indicates something that’s well […]
