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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIX–The Empire As a Depleting Engine
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXIX–The Empire As a Depleting Engine In this Contemplation, I begin with an exploration of the ideas that: the geopolitical actions of the nation state of the United States of America (USA) are reflective of how empires have behaved in general throughout history; there is no international body or coalition capable […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXVIII–We’re Saved! Solar Photovoltaic Panel Recycling.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXVIII We’re Saved! Solar Photovoltaic Panel Recycling. One of the more common rebuttals to my attempts to highlight the limitations of solar photovoltaic energy as a “drop-in” substitute for hydrocarbons is that these wondrous technologies are completely recyclable. In the minds of true believers, this means the finiteness of mineral inputs […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXVII– We’re Saved! Massive Buildout of Solar Photovoltaic Energy!
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXXXVII– We’re Saved! Massive Buildout of Solar Photovoltaic Energy! I was starkly reminded of the cult-like belief in the salvation offered via solar photovoltaic energy last week when a Greenpeace International post in my Facebook feed appeared suggesting it. I agreed with the comment of another who was skeptical. That agreement […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIIIVI–Everything Is Fine!
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIIIVI–Everything Is Fine! In a recent Energy Bad Boys article arguing that in opposition to the belief that the US environment is getting worse, the authors assert that “[a]ll measurable environmental quality metrics have shown consistent improvement over the last 25 years”. After supporting this assertion with some (limited) data, the authors go on […]
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 […]
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 […]
