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The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025
The Bulletin: August 13-19, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Science Snippets: Connecting War with Climate Change The Forgotten Skills of Dying and Grieving Well: How Engaging with Loss Can Help Us Live More Fully You Can’t Make This Shit Up – […]
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025
The Bulletin: May 1-7, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. A Key Longevity Antioxidant Is Fading From Our Food Supply The Limits of Business-as-Usual in AEO 2025 | Art Berman Complexity, Collapse, and the Lessons of Late Antiquity More Than 150 Nobel-Prize Winning Scientists […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCII– Hydrocarbons: Our Finite, Master Energy Resource and the Implications Of Its Peak For Modernity
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCII– Hydrocarbons: Our Finite, Master Energy Resource and the Implications Of Its Peak For Modernity Sun setting on an oil field (gettyimages.ca) If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. I’m finding that Large Language Models (LLMs) are a fantastic tool for skimming large amounts of information and […]
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025
The Bulletin: January 23-29, 2025 Collapse or Extinction: The Unholy Double Bind of the 21st Century US Will Likely Stop Buying Oil From Venezuela: Trump | The Epoch Times The End of the Regenerative Illusion? Germany’s Outgoing Economy Minister Warns Europe Not to Over-Rely on US Energy | The Epoch Times Modern Civilization is Proving […]
The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024
The Bulletin: December 19-25, 2024 The Great Simplification in Action: Building Resilience Through Local Communities Antarctica’s tipping points threaten global climate stability Coal use to reach new peak – and remain at near-record levels for years | Energy industry | The Guardian Homesteading 101: Regenerative Farming and the American Farmer. A Predicament With An Outcome […]
Post-Modernity
Post-Modernity As sketched in the previous post, I believe modernity to be an unsustainable flash that will not persist into future millennia. Uncomfortable with untethered speculation, I have said little about what might come after, but feel I owe something in this vein. Semantically, what follows the modern age must be the post-modern age, right? Except […]
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: […]
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic
Report: Lab Leaks Have Increased By 50% Since COVID Pandemic “The apparent lab leaks in the UK alone show we are all sitting on a ticking time bomb.” The Telegraph reports that it has found a FIFTY PERCENT increase in leaks and accidents at laboratories in the UK since the outbreak of COVID in 2020, warning of […]
Financing the End of Modernity
Financing the End of Modernity How financialization heralds the end of the industrial age That didn’t worked out as intended… Who would’ve thought? Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash Western neoliberal economies are on the brink of a steep economic decline. Barring an energy / productivity miracle a prolonged and deep recession is clearly on the horizon. While […]
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future Abstract This age of modernity is characterized by consistent growth in energy use, economic activity, and resource consumption, and a generally increasing standard of living—albeit inequitably distributed. All currently living humans, and most academic disciplines, have developed in this age, which appears normal […]
Modernity’s Long Twilight
Modernity’s Long Twilight Photo source wongaboo | CC BY 2.0 While Marx expected the industrial proletariat to spearhead the socialist revolution, it is now left to those who resist the burning of the last of the planet’s fossil fuel – which continues to engorge the hyper-capitalism of the early twenty-first century – to usher us […]
The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity Photo by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 “Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the Gulf.” —Sylvia Earle […]
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities
The return of the peasant: or, the history of the world in 10½ blog posts – 8. Of reconstituted peasantries and alternate modernities Continuing with my ‘History of the world’. As ever, the fully referenced version of this essay is available here. I’m going to come back to the issue of peasantries as the ‘universal […]
What is this ‘Crisis’ of Modernity?
What is this ‘Crisis’ of Modernity? Workmen next to the screws of the RMS Titanic at Belfast shipyard, 1911The people at Conflicts Forum, which is directed by former British diplomat and MI6 ‘ranking figure’ Alastair Crooke, sent me an unpublished article by Alastair and asked if the Automatic Earth would publish it. Since I like his […]
Stephen Toulmin welcomes you to the end of modernity
Stephen Toulmin welcomes you to the end of modernity Historian and philosopher of science Stephen Toulmin welcomes you to the end of modernity, at least modernity as we’ve imagined it. By modernity, he does not mean modern gadgets. By end he does not mean an end to progress in the natural sciences, nor in human affairs in […]
