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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLX–Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLX– Elite Responses to the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 Have you noticed that when a society begins to falter, to move sideways, its ruling elite rarely if ever respond by looking in the mirror and asking, “What are we doing wrong?” No–instead they ask, “How can we maintain our positions […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIX– On the Limits of Ecological Recovery: A Response to a Thoughtful Challenge
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIX– On the Limits of Ecological Recovery: A Response to a Thoughtful Challenge In my recent Contemplation on affordability, collapse, and the architecture of hydrocarbon decline I argued that the ecological conditions necessary for the reemergence of a large, complex society are unlikely to be met after our global, industrial ones […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVIII–On the Hunger of Empires
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVIII–On the Hunger of Empires While I should be out in my gardens beginning the late-summer preparations I typically do at this time of year to get ready for our lovely Canadian winters, I have chosen instead to quickly pen a Contemplation focused on imperial collapse following a conversation I was […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVII–Unchallenged Propaganda: Good Government and the Theology of Growth
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVII–Unchallenged Propaganda: Good Government and the Theology of Growth I’m going to take a bit of a detour from the past few Contemplations concerning the Architecture of Collapse I’ve been developing and address something that is a bit of a pet peeve for me. It’s the constant barrage of propaganda emanating […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVI–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLVI–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 3 shutterstock.com In Part 1 of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack) I argue that Gail Tverberg’s affordability argument complements my supply-side, EROI one. Extraction costs rise as EROI falls, and the subsequent increase in energy prices erodes affordability for the 90% of income earners […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 2 stock.adobe.com In Part 1 of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack) I argue that Gail Tverberg’s affordability argument complements my supply-side, EROI one. Extraction costs rise as EROI falls, and the subsequent increase in energy prices erodes affordability for the 90% of income earners […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIV–Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline, Part 1 US Changes in Real Income Affordability, Collapse, and the Architecture of Hydrocarbon Decline On the heels of my two-part Contemplation that took a look at the supply-side dynamics of hydrocarbons–particularly oil–and the consequences of the geologic reality for our global, industrial […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII-Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLIII- Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 2 Oil Production’s Seneca Cliff In Part One of this Contemplation (see: Website Medium Substack), I attempted to lay out the foundational components of humanity’s hydrocarbon predicament by looking at the geologic, energetic, and systemic realities. I asserted that hydrocarbons are not just one […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCLII–Peak Oil and the Architecture of Collapse, Part 1 The Forgotten Foundation My most recent Contemplations have discussed the foundational bases of modernity’s predicament: ecological overshoot, physical limits to growth, the maximum power principle, the mind over reality transition, progress traps, and wetiko. I’ve risked minimising what is perhaps one of our most crucial material aspects in […]
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 CCL–Smoke Without Borders: Politicians Without Conscience
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCL–Smoke Without Borders: Politicians Without Conscience Had some “quality” indoor time the past few days as wildfire smoke made it dangerous to be outside — or in my gardens — here north of Toronto. And rather than get to the myriad of chores I could have been doing in the house, […]
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 […]
