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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXV–We’re Saved! Bamboo and Hemp.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXV–We’re Saved! Bamboo and Hemp. CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Not long ago a Facebook Friend (someone I know through my brother) shared one of those clickbait FB Group posts that I couldn’t help but comment on (you can read the exchange at the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXII–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep, Redux
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXII–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep, Redux klementoninvesting.substack.com A couple of months ago, I penned an article summarising a handful of resources that had helped to inform and guide my thinking on our various predicaments. Those five resources were just a sampling of the ones I’ve been exposed to over […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CV–That Uncertain Road, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CV–That Uncertain Road, Part 2 March 6, 2023 (original posting date) Teotihuacan, Mexico. (1988) Photo by author. That Uncertain Road, Part 2 The set of possible futures includes a great variety of paths. There may be abrupt collapse; it is also possible there may be a smooth transition to sustainability. But […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCXI–Collapse, Environment, and Society Collapse, Environment, and Society is a 2012 article by geographer Karl Butzer (see: here and here) whose academic career focussed upon the relationship between humans and their environment. In this article (summarised in more detail below), Butzer takes issue with often oversimplified narratives regarding societal ‘collapse’. He argues that societal decline […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX– Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCIX– Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 2 CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. In Part 1 of this Contemplation (Website Medium Substack) I discuss how our species seems to be responding to the signals our planet and […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVII–‘Collapse’: It May Not Be What You Think It Is.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVII– ‘Collapse’: It May Not Be What You Think It Is. cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net This Contemplation is the result of my beginning to put together a different one that’s focussing upon an academic article I’ve been reading (Collapse, Environment, and Society) but that got me thinking about the academic ‘debate’ regarding what ‘societal […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVI–A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCVI A ‘Great Simplification’ Is On Our Doorstep. stock.adobe.com CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this synopsis. I have been wanting for some time to connect in an aggregate fashion a few of the ‘texts’ I’ve been exposed to over the past two decades and that have […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIX– Imperial Longevity, ‘Collapse’ Causes, and Resource Finiteness
Athens, Greece (1984). Photo by author. CLICK HERE I thought I would try something a little different in this Contemplation as I work on reading and summarising a chapter from a monograph–Peak Oil, Economic Growth, and Wildlife Conservation. Today’s Contemplation is a Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence-generated summary of three specific questions pertaining to […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCVII–‘Renewable’ Energy: See, Hear, and Speak No Evil, Part 3 In attempting to bolster the mass rollout of supposed ‘clean/green/sustainable’ ‘renewable’ energy technologies (and the necessary ‘investments’, particularly in terms of finite resources–especially energy), the marketers of these industrial products and their enthusiastic supporters have created and pushed a narrative/mythos […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down.
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXCIV–US Peak Shale Oil & Gas: When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down. Tulum, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. This Contemplation has been prompted by a publication (see summary below) focused upon the apparent peaking of shale oil and gas production within the United States. The commentary on US shale extraction by the natural […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CL–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 2
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CL–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 2 September 20, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. As I stated at the close of Part 1: “We have, as a rationalising but not rational story-telling ape, created myths about our place in the universe and how we have […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIX–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 1
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIX–Carbon Tunnel Vision and Resource/Energy & Ecological Blindness, Part 1 September 7, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. In my attempt to ‘market’ the article compilation that was recently published, I joined a couple of Facebook Groups in order to post about the document. I subsequently posted my last Contemplation (that […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXI–Sociopolitical Agency, Narrative Management, And Collapse
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXXXI–Sociopolitical Agency, Narrative Management, And Collapse May 22, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Photo by author. Today’s reflection is a comment I left in response to an article by Bruce Wilds at his Advancing Time site that discusses the increasing anger building across the planet with respect to growing government oppression and the media’s […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CXLIII–Ruling Caste Responses to Societal Breakdown/Decline August 3, 2023 (original posting date) Mexico (1988). Picture by author. Today’s Contemplation is composed of my comments on two different FB posts I came across yesterday. The first is a reply to a comment to a MSN article regarding a possible Covid-19-type lockdown scenario based upon […]
