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The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025
The Bulletin: August 6-12, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Maine Organic Farmers Organization Suing EPA over PFAS in sludge–which has shut down many farms in Maine Dennis L. Meadows on the Future of our Planet The Silent Collapse: What the Disappearance […]
The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024
The Bulletin: October 17-23, 2024 The Federal Reserve and the Regime Are One and the Same | Mises Institute Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches. “There is Something being Concocted in the Dens of Power” – Global Research We’re Told This Is Progress, But It’s Actually Anti-Progress The Long Shadow of the Tar Sands Catastrophic Crop […]
A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today
A Most Dangerous Assumption: Mining the Future to Spend More Today What the cheerleaders are actually claiming is the process of adding zeroes to “money” is limitless, but there are limits on the utility of devaluing currency, too. How prosperous would the world be if we hadn’t collectively borrowed and spent $315 trillion—-333% of global […]
Finding Our Future
Finding Our Future We are looking for it in all the wrong places SolarPunk versus Fossil Fuels AI-Generated – Copilot The world in the image on the left above is totally dependent on the world in the image on the right. These now function as states of cognitive dissonance, which must be resolved by […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV–To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXIV Knossos, Greece (1988). Photo by author. To EV Or Not To EV? One Of Many Questions Regarding Our ‘Clean/Green’ Utopian Future, Part 2. In Part 1 of this two-part Contemplation I argue that the recent trumpeting of electric vehicle (EV) car sales as a prologue to their imminent mass adoption and possibly […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVII–The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXVII Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be Today’s Contemplation is my brief comment on an article posted on Facebook by Tristan Sykes of Just Collapse. The article in question (short and concise) is an update of the World3 model used in creating the various scenarios […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVI–Is it Too Late For Pessimism?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVI Knossos, Greece (1993), Photo by author Is it Too Late For Pessimism? Today’s ‘contemplation’ has been prompted by a question posed to me by a fellow commenter, puppyg, via an article we were both commenting upon. Taking advantage of a rainy day, I have prepared a rather extensive answer. Question: Tonight […]
Futurus Interruptus
Futurus Interruptus Most of the time, in writing these essays, I try to treat the decline of industrial society with the seriousness that it deserves. Sometimes, though, the plain raw absurdity of our current situation rises to a point that only raucous laughter can address. I ran into another of those points a few days […]
Future Headline: White House Prepares to Block Out the Sun
Future Headline: White House Prepares to Block Out the Sun In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. […]
A Deep Dive Into the Future
A Deep Dive Into the Future Photo by Denny Müller on Unsplash Thinking more than a couple of days ahead is not one of humankind’s greatest strengths, especially not beyond the scale and scope of our immediate surroundings. In the rare occasion when thinking of this type does happen, however, it usually takes two directions: the future will […]
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization
Our hunter-gatherer future: Climate change, agriculture and uncivilization Highlights •The stable climate of the Holocene made agriculture and civilization possible. The unstable Pleistocene climate made it impossible before then. •Human societies after agriculture were characterized by overshoot and collapse. Climate change frequently drove these collapses. •Business-as-usual estimates indicate that the climate will warm by 3°C-4 °C […]
How the modern fantasy of an eternal civilization warps our view of technology
How the modern fantasy of an eternal civilization warps our view of technology What historians call the Golden Age of Greece—which ran from about 500 to 300 BC—spawned the foundational Western philosophers Plato and Aristotle; mathematicians such as Euclid whose geometry is still taught in schools today; classical Greek dramatists such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, […]
