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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society Collapse, Environment, and Society is a 2012 article by geographer Karl Butzer (see: here and here) whose academic career focussed upon the relationship between humans and their environment. In this article (summarised in more detail below), Butzer takes issue with often oversimplified narratives regarding societal ‘collapse’. He argues that societal decline […]
Distilled Disintegration
Distilled Disintegration Photo by Nigel Brown; licensed under Creative Commons My adult life has run on two diverging tracks. On one, I played science. The other track branched off at age 34—twenty years ago this month—when I started teaching a class on Energy and the Environment. I was eager to piece together our likely energy future: […]
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire
Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire (Natural News) California issued its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years last week as the state’s grid operator tried to keep the power system from complete collapse in the midst of a heat wave, and some are pointing out that […]
The Importance Of A Resilient Life
The Importance Of A Resilient Life In the end, it will mean all the difference My business partner Adam and I recently met with a successful business owner whose career began on Wall Street. The kind of guy who should be rooting for the system, because it has treated him well. Instead, he was quite […]
Living With Integrity
Living With Integrity It’s time to choose a new direction. Every so often, our work in the premium side of PeakProsperity.com is deemed so important that our paying subscribers request we share it with the general public. Last week’s ‘Off The Cuff’ podcast received so many of these requests that we are releasing it to […]
Planetary Collapse Threatens Our Survival: A New Study Says That More Than 1,200 Species “Will Almost Certainly Face Extinction”
Planetary Collapse Threatens Our Survival: A New Study Says That More Than 1,200 Species “Will Almost Certainly Face Extinction” We are witnessing a worldwide environmental collapse, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. As you will see below, a study that was just released that looked at more than 5,000 species of birds, […]
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why Scientists are telling us that we have entered “the sixth major extinction” in the history of our planet. A brand new survey of 73 scientific reports that was just released has come to the conclusion that the total […]
Collapse Is Already Here
Collapse Is Already Here It’s a process, not an event. Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely obvious, like a Hollywood blockbuster. Complete with clear warnings from scientists, politicians and […]
The Ghost Of Christmas Future
The Ghost Of Christmas Future Here in the brief period between Christmas and New year’s, as a writer I am obligated to say happy, wishful things. I have to confess, I’m just not feeling it this year, so I’ll just do the minimum here and return to being a curmudgeon, because that’s what the times […]
Total Planetary Collapse: The World’s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970
Total Planetary Collapse: The World’s Vertebrate Population Has Fallen By An Average Of 60 Percent Since 1970 The clock is ticking for humanity, and it is not just because our financial system is heading for the biggest implosion that any of us have ever seen. The truth is that we are literally running out of […]
The Whole System Is Rigged
The Whole System Is Rigged From elections to media to the markets, it’s all controlled As the dog days of summer wind down, it’s hard not to notice how the climate is suffering brutally right now across many areas of the globe. Crop failures have hit hard across Europe. Australia is under an intense drought. […]
Time To Choose
kienyke.com Time To Choose Will you be an agent of depletion or regeneration? There’s a vast revolution underway. And it’s time to pick sides. Your choice couldn’t be more critically important. Quite possibly, the entire fate of the human species hangs in the balance. It’s time to decide: Will you be an agent of depletion […]
The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
© Rangizzz | Dreamstime.com The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be Looks like we’re in for a much rockier ride than many expect This marks our our 10th year of doing this. And by “this”, we mean using data, logic and reason to support the very basic conclusion that infinite growth on a finite […]
Waiting for the Debris Flows
Waiting for the Debris Flows In J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, his characters sit around in an isolated colonial fort in a nameless desert country, awaiting their destiny – an invasion of the barbarians. The novel concerns its characters’ slow realization of their complicity, as agents of the Empire, in their fate. Something […]
10 Years Automatic Earth
10 Years Automatic Earth Winslow Homer Mending the nets 1881 Yes, it’s 10 years ago today, on January 22 2008, that Nicole Foss and I published our first article on the Automatic Earth (the first few years on Blogger). And, well, obviously, a lot has happened in those 10 years. For ourselves, we went from […]
