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The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024
The Bulletin: January 30-February 5, 2024 What Won’t Happen Trump’s Bold Energy Gamble: It’s Not What You Think | Art Berman We already have a date for the zenith of civilization: 2025-2026 – Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse The Geopolitics of Climate Change || Peter Zeihan The longest 10 minutes of your life have just […]
Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions
Don’t Talk To Me About Solutions The System Itself is the Problem It’s 2024 and I’m suspicious of “solutions”. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement? The ocean acidification that’s bleaching corals en masse? The rampant […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII–Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXVIII Knossos, Greece (1993). Photo by author. Magic Permeates Our Thinking About ‘Solutions’ A few brief Facebook conversations I have had the past couple of days while I work on a longer Contemplation regarding binary thinking, particularly as it applies to sociopolitics. The first shared this article featuring a picture of a massive […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVII–Ecological Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Biophysical Reality
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXVII July 24, 2021 Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author Ecological Overshoot, Hydrocarbon Energy, and Biophysical Reality Discussing ‘renewable’ energy and its shortcomings with those who hold on to the belief that they offer us a ‘solution’ to the predicaments humanity faces is always ‘challenging’. Today’s contemplation is based on a recent dialogue […]
What If There Are No Solutions?
What If There Are No Solutions? The unencumbered realist concludes that there are no solutions within a status quo structure that is itself the problem. Realists who question received wisdom and conclude the status quo is untenable are quickly labeled pessimists because the zeitgeist expects a solution is always at hand–preferably a technocratic one that requires zero […]
Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves
Spot The Illusions We Tell Ourselves Whitewater Falls, North Carolina Recently there have been a rather large number of occurrences which shine a light on some positive progress being made on ecological overshoot. Unfortunately, many outlets and even scientists have made claims about so-called “solutions” which are anything but, and generally they’re simply not true. […]
The Streetlight Effect: When People Look Within The System For Solutions To The System
The Streetlight Effect: When People Look Within The System For Solutions To The System A policeman sees a drunk man crawling around on his hands and knees at night and asks what the problem is. The drunk man says he’s trying to find his keys, so the officer gets down and starts searching with him. […]
Our opposable thumb
Our opposable thumb “Stereoscopic vision, depth perception, certain emotions and other perceptions, and the ability to stretch our thumbs farther than most other species, the ability to build and destroy things, and many other traits individually or in combination separate us from other species, not necessarily all species though. Other animals with opposable thumbs include […]
The Taste of Another’s Thoughts
The Taste of Another’s Thoughts We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is sinking fast, and find our way to the solid ground of things that actually matter. I know some of my […]
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo
Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I’ve outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? and Checking In on the Four Intersecting […]
Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns?
Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? Solutions abound, but they require the retirement of obsolete systems that defend entrenched interests and soul-crushing inequalities. It turns out Nero wasn’t fiddling as Rome burned–he was 60 km away at the time. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? The story has become short-hand for making light of a […]
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times Corey Templeton The Deering Oaks farmers’ market, held every Wednesday and Saturday in Portland, Maine. Consider, for a moment, that lettuce leaf on your plate. It probably traveled a long way to get there—about 1,500 miles, on average.1 In fact, your dinner has probably […]
