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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIX– We’re Saved! Pulling It Together…So Far.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIX– We’re Saved! Pulling It Together…So Far. After my previous We’re Saved! Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack)–another in my series that has attempted to pull the curtain aside on excessively-hyped ‘solutions’ to our various predicaments–I couldn’t help but notice that there are a number of commonalities in the critiques for the […]
We’re Saved! A Collection of ‘Solution’ Critiques, Volume 1.
We’re Saved! A Collection of ‘Solution’ Critiques, Volume 1. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure but just ain’t so. For example, beliefs such as the idea that we can replace fossil fuels with ‘clean’ alternatives or that infinite growth is possible on a finite […]
The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025
The Bulletin: November 12-18, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs – Consortium News Latin American Kuwait: Trump’s Looming War In the Caribbean Might Have Nothing To Do With Narco Terrorism The seminal papers on water – by […]
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 […]
