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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1 US Changes in Real Income Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline On the heels of my two-part Contemplation that took a look at the supply-side dynamics of hydrocarbons–particularly oil–and the consequences of the geologic reality for our global, industrial […]
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026
The Bulletin: July 29-August 5, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. US Corn Conditions Suffer Sharpest Deterioration In Three Years, Fueling Food Inflation Fear | ZeroHedge A Rights Revolution For Nature Exercise works for depression. So why isn’t it treated like real medicine? […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII-Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII- Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2 Oil Production’s Seneca Cliff In Part One of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I attempted to lay out the foundational components of humanity’s hydrocarbon predicament by looking at the geologic, energetic, and systemic realities. I asserted that hydrocarbons are not just one […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLI–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 2 discoverthewetiko.com In Part 1 (see: Website, Medium, Substack), I attempted to lay the groundwork for understanding our predicament. I relied on some of the key scientists and researchers I have read. William Catton’s Overshoot argues that our species has greatly overshot the carrying capacity of our […]
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026
The Bulletin: July 15–21, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Controlling the World Island I’m Being Fined $49,890.13 for Defending a Sacred Site Evolutionary Shrinkflation — The George Tsakraklides View Why the Media Needs Objectivity — Lean Out with Tara Henley The Bigger Condo […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIX–The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIX– The Celebration of Our Own Undoing, Part 1 The Mechanics of Our Predicament We are peculiar creatures, we humans. I have spent much of my recent years — since that jarring viewing of Collapse more than fifteen years ago — watching our species with a mixture of bewilderment and a strange, sorrowful […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVIII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVIII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 2. “…the economy is an energy system, and not a financial one. Money is a human artefact used to exchange the goods and services that constitute economic output, but all of these are products of energy. Our economic history is a narrative of how […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIV– We’re Saved! The Finale: All Aboard the Salvation Bus.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLIV– We’re Saved! The Finale: All Aboard the Salvation Bus. Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalising animal. -Robert A. Heinlein Across the almost two dozen We’re Saved! Contemplations I’ve penned over the last ten months in an attempt to analyse “solutions” to humanity’s predicaments a consistent and […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXIII–We’re Saved! Artificial Intelligence.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLXIII–We’re Saved! Artificial Intelligence. One of the latest and greatest techno-fixes to our ecological overshoot predicament and its myriad of symptom predicaments–artificial intelligence (AI)–is another in a growing list of oxymoronic “solutions”, doing the exact opposite of “saving” our societies and planet. Our various “solutionists” are shouting from the rooftops incessantly […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLII–We’re Saved! Well, Canada Is…
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLII– We’re Saved! Well, Canada Is… Before I begin this particular Contemplation, I have a confession. One of my major distractions from the polycrisis our species has led itself into is sports. Primarily hockey (which I follow and continue to play as I travel into my late 60s, skating 4-5 times […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXL We’re Saved! A Circular Economy.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXL– We’re Saved! A Circular Economy. On the heels of my last We’re Saved! Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack) that deconstructed the idea that solar photovoltaic panels are “fully recyclable”–as many of its supporters argue–I believe it’s logical to take this the next step to the broader concept of a “circular economy”. This is […]
The Bulletin: April 15-21, 2026
The Bulletin: April 15-21, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Western Australia Establishes Strategic Fuel Reserve | ZeroHedge The Avatar and the Entropy Dump: Why the ‘Deep State’ Needs a Mad King Consciousness Of Sheep News: Spring 2026 Means Of Extinction: Global […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIV–Collapse Is Baked Into Our Future.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIV–Collapse Is Baked Into Our Future. Looking back at the past few years of my essays on societal collapse I’ve noted a number of consistent messages and wanted to reiterate them here as I believe we are firmly on the downslope of societal complexity and moving ever faster towards a state […]
