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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 […]
The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
Earth and Humanity
Earth and Humanity Every year, Nate Hagens produces a video for Earth Day. Nate is someone I cannot admire enough. These videos normally last about an hour, but this year one of his University colleagues told him it was about time he stopped pussy footing around and tell it like is. So this year’s effort […]
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives A friend of mine quipped that it is one thing to talk about the end of modernism—as the two of us have been doing for over 25 years—and quite another to live through it. It might seem that such notions are far too abstract […]
Were other humans the first victims of the 6th mass extinction?
Were other humans the first victims of the 6th mass extinction? Preface. This article makes a good case that we did indeed wipe out other hominids. “…Yet the extinction of Neanderthals, at least, took a long time—thousands of years. While Neanderthals lost the war, to hold on so long they must have fought and won […]
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism?
Can Humanity and Nature Co-Exist Under Capitalism? Two new documentaries tackle the all-important question of our age, namely how humanity and nature can co-exist in a period of insurmountable capitalist contradiction, especially when humanity takes the form of small businesspeople hoping to exploit natural resources under duress. Opening at The Landmark at 57 West on […]
Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Our Malevolent Benefactors and Their Master Plan for Humanity
Breakthrough Energy Ventures: Our Malevolent Benefactors and Their Master Plan for Humanity The men who pull all the media, political and business levers in much of the world now want to pretend to save us from ourselves by backing GMOs and other questionable technologies. ABusiness Insider story by author Aria Bendix caught my eye this […]
Humanity vs. the Rule of Law
Humanity vs. the Rule of Law Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair It was back in my early undergrad years when I first came to understand the broad reach of US foreign policy. I completed a social work internship in Los Angeles at a safe house in east LA in a largely immigrant community whose goal […]
Will the Extinction of Bees Really Mean the End of Humanity?
Will the Extinction of Bees Really Mean the End of Humanity? Feared at best and considered a useless, disposable nuisance at worst, bees are among the most underappreciated creatures on the planet. That’s a shame because our very existence relies on the tiny buzzing creatures. We’ve known for years that bee populations all across North […]
Humanity Sealed Its Own Fate: 15,000 Scientists Sign A “Doomsday Warning”
Humanity Sealed Its Own Fate: 15,000 Scientists Sign A “Doomsday Warning” A catastrophic warning about humanity’s impending doom was just signed by 15,000 scientists; they all agree that we’ve already sealed our fate. The signed letter, which was apparently first written in 1992, claims all of the predictions made by scientists have come true except […]
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse
Beware of the “dark side” of humanity during any collapse While there have been countless books, movies and television shows about life after some type of apocalyptic event, chances are none of us will ever actually be forced to experience what its like trying to rebuild society from the ground up. More than likely, the […]
Why you can’t argue with a “modern”
Why you can’t argue with a “modern” The modern world is filled with things many of us regard as antiquated and old-fashioned. Modern people often say that ancient rituals are mere superstition, that science tells us what is real and what is not, and that we are now free from ideas including untestable ideas from […]
Terms of debate: Destroying vs altering nature, the fragile vs the resilient Earth
Terms of debate: Destroying vs altering nature, the fragile vs the resilient Earth Last week’s piece drew responses that throw into relief how much the language we use depends on our most basic assumptions about how the world works. If left unexamined, that language leads to further conclusions that go unchallenged because the underlying assumptions are never scrutinized. […]
