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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 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIII–We’re NOT Saved! We’re Making Our Predicaments Worse.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIII We’re NOT Saved! We’re Making Our Predicaments Worse. This Contemplation is the sharing of the foreword to my latest collection of critiques of technological ‘solutions’ to our various predicaments. Foreword: We’re Saved! Summing Up Volumes 1 & 2. The need to believe tomorrow will be like today and yesterday is […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXII–We’re Saved! ‘Renewables’ and Energy Security.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXII We’re Saved! ‘Renewables’ and Energy Security. We all interpret the world through our specific schemas and broader worldview. I have been reflecting on this phenomenon with regard to ‘renewables’ given an article I read and a meme making the rounds on social media in the shadow of the eruption of violence and chaos in the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXI– We’re Saved! Ecomodernism.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXI– We’re Saved! Ecomodernism. Using the ‘questionnaire’ for evaluating supposed ‘solutions’ to humanity’s various predicaments that I proposed in my previous We’re Saved! Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I thought it might be appropriate to assess the environmental philosophy that tends to lead the way in pushing ‘technological problem-solving’: Ecomodernism. Let’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– Revisited: Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s)
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXX– Revisited: Collapse = Prolonged Period of Diminishing Returns + Significant Stress Surge(s) Over the past several months I have seen far more posts on my various media and social feeds focussed on the idea of societal ‘collapse/simplification/decline’. The reasons for this probably vary by author, but I would suspect that […]
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 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVIII– We’re Saved! Steel Production Without Coal.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVIII– We’re Saved! Steel Production Without Coal. Techno-optimist’s claims are relentless. One that has come across one of my social media feeds a few times is the tale that Sweden is now producing steel without the use of coal, a process that “could reshape the industry forever”. And, yes, the declaration […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVII– We’re Saved! Wave Energy.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVII– We’re Saved! Wave Energy. A relatively recent article and some social media click-bait site posts have me exploring the potential of wave energy-harvesting technologies. But as with every such technological promise examined in the last dozen or so Contemplations, a close scrutiny of wave energy shows that it does not […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVI–We’re Saved! Hydrogen Energy.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXVI– We’re Saved! Hydrogen Energy. There exists a variety of justifications surrounding the potential of using a hydrogen-based energy system to play a much larger role in supporting human societies and their array of complexities and growth. As seems typical, the claims made by the energy industry and supporters of such […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXV– We’re Saved! Carbon Emissions Have Decoupled From Economic Growth.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXV– We’re Saved! Carbon Emissions Have Decoupled From Economic Growth. In a recent article, energy analyst Art Berman critiques a report put out by The Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) regarding the notion of ‘decoupling’. I found this a timely article given I had already begun to think about doing […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIV– We’re Saved! Thorium-Fuelled and Molten Salt Reactors.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIV– We’re Saved! Thorium-Fuelled and Molten Salt Reactors. There always seems to be an acceptance-pushback response (e.g., “Yeah, but…” ) by someone when I raise the alarm about a trumpeted energy ‘solution’ that is making legacy media headlines and/or the rounds on social media–then is invariably overhyped by a click-bait site […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIII– We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 4.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXIII– We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 4. In Part 3 of this multipart Contemplation on the supposed ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ (see: Part 1 Website Medium, Substack; Part 2 Website Medium Substack); Part 3 Website Medium Substack), I present a critical examination of the waste ‘dilemma’ surrounding nuclear reactors […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXII–We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 3.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXII We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 3. In Part 2 of this multipart Contemplation (see: Part 1 Website Medium, Substack; Part 2 Website Medium Substack) I present a critical perspective on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) that have become the latest and greatest nuclear power-based ‘solution’ to humanity’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXI–We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 2.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXI We’re Saved! A Nuclear Renaissance Is Upon Us, Part 2. In Part 1 of this multipart Contemplation on the nuclear energy ‘renaissance’ (see: Website Medium, Substack), I argue that energy has been the fundamental driver behind the growth and complexity of human societies, from hunter-gatherer bands to modern industrial civilisation. An […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIX– We’re Saved! ‘Good Government’ Has Humanity’s Back. Part 3.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXIX– We’re Saved! ‘Good Government’ Has Humanity’s Back. Part 3. Eat the Rich redbubble.com In Part 1 of this multi-part Contemplation (see Website Medium Substack) I challenge the belief that governments are benevolent institutions in service of the masses and argue that this is not only a dangerous myth but that […]
