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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 […]
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 CCXLVII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 1.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVII–Monetary Systems, Thermodynamics, and Ecological Overshoot, Part 1. Money, it’s a crime Share it fairly, but don’t take a slice of my pie Money, so they say Is the root of evil today -Pink Floyd, Money (1973) One of the interests I’ve developed since falling down the rabbit’s hole of peak oil, societal collapse, and ecological […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVI– Laughing at Our Self-Destruction.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLVI– Laughing at Our Self-Destruction. Today’s Contemplation is a little different. At the start of this year, I was contacted by award-winning author and humourist Scott Erickson, who offered to send me a copy of his recently released book, Laughing at Our Self-Destruction: How to Stop Worrying and Accept the Impending Collapse […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLV–Overlooking the Biophysical Basis of Human Societies.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXLV Overlooking the Biophysical Basis of Human Societies. On June 4th, 2026, economist Thomas Piketty and a large team of collaborators unveiled a proposal that is, in its scope and ambition, unlike almost anything in contemporary economic discourse. Outlined in detail on the Global Justice Project’s (GJP) website, the plan is built on three […]
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 […]
The Bulletin: June 3-9, 2026
The Bulletin: June 3-9, 2026 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Why Another Oil Spike Isn’t Off the Table Oil – The Master Resource – New Zealand Energy It’s NOT the Drought: The Real Reason Lake Mead Lost 100 Feet! Oil Prices Hold […]
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 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXV– Rules For Thee, Not For Me.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXV– Rules For Thee, Not For Me. An ‘interesting’ facet of the ever-evolving conflict between the United States of America and Iran (what I’ve been referring to for sometime as Schrodinger’s War) is the transit of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and what its disruption has done to the 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 […]
