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The Stuff of Our Lives: The Seneca Collapse of Relocating

The Stuff of Our Lives: The Seneca Collapse of Relocating The experience of relocating is curiously similar to an archaeological excavation of the ruins of a disappeared empire. Above, you can see two jars filled with old coins recovered from the nook and crannies of my house after emptying it of everything. Mostly these are […]

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New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire

New Data Reveal the Hidden Mechanisms of the Collapse of the Roman Empire The reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire have remained a mystery for modern historians, just as for the Romans themselves. Yet, recent data from the Greenland ice core provide us with new data on collapse of the Empire, showing […]

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The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse

The View from Les Houches: The Seneca Collapse I gave a presentation focused on the Seneca Effect at the School of Physics in Les Houches this March. Here I show various concepts associated with overshoot and collapse with the help of “Amelie the Amoeba” (This picture was not taken in Les Houches, but in an […]

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The Golden Rule of Technological Progress: Innovation Doesn’t Solve Problems, It Creates Them

The Golden Rule of Technological Progress: Innovation Doesn’t Solve Problems, It Creates Them Image from RealPharmacy See that thing up there? It is an autonomous security robot, something that’s becoming fashionable nowadays. Obviously, for every problem, there has to be a technological solution. So, what could go wrong with the idea that the problem of […]

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The Soft Belly of The Oil Industry: an Upcoming Seneca Collapse? 

The Soft Belly of The Oil Industry: an Upcoming Seneca Collapse?    Ugo Bardi explains his idea of an impending “Seneca Collapse” of the world’s oil industry at the session on climate change of the meeting of the Club of Rome in Vienna, on 10 Nov 2017. What follows are not the exact words said, […]

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Donald Trump and the collapse of the Western Empire

Donald Trump and the collapse of the Western Empire   In this post, I argue that the ascent of Donald Trump in the US presidential race is a symptom of the ongoing breakdown of society, in turn caused by the loss of control generated by resource depletion. At the bottom of this post, you’ll find […]

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