Excerpt from Tadzio Mueller’s forthcoming book: I’m scared of the future. It wasn’t always like this, because despite being a “commie eco faggot”, I am, first and foremost, a fairly privileged, bourgeois (albeit half-migrant, but white-passing) cis man, and as such the world didn’t, until recently, really have to frighten me. Until not so veryContinue reading ““I’m scared”: the conversation nobody wants to have”
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New article: Just Collapse and post-anarchism
If irreversible collapse changes politics and activism, what do we call this politics? In this new article, A/Prof Kate Booth looks at ‘post-anarchism’ as a way of articulating and acting for socio-ecological justice in decline and disaster: “… post-anarchism is about living between worlds– between the dying, collapsing world of global capital and climate-ecological destruction and the unknown future worlds of disparate peopleContinue reading “New article: Just Collapse and post-anarchism”
EVENT: How collapse changes politics and action
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Upcoming event – Germany
Mutual Aid HEAT is an upcoming week-long event, practicing mutual aid in stressful situations. This kind of event is collapse activism – the new frontier of leftwing politics. Why? Because collapse changes politics and activism, and we must do what we can for each other and to resist the rise of the right. “We areContinue reading “Upcoming event – Germany”
Just Collapse is back!
Just Collapse is back with a revitalised website! As a platform dedicated to socio-ecological justice in unfolding and irreversible global collapse, Just Collapse matters more than ever – because collapse is inevitable, but justice is not! Just Collapse has been through several iterations. The current articulation of a just collapse follows the passing of co-founderContinue reading “Just Collapse is back!”
In Collapse – new book out now
Available at: In Collapse: When Insurance and Climate Collide | Springer Nature Link Preface – by Associate Prof Kate Booth I read Jared Diamond’s Collapse (2005) in my 30s. I couldn’t finish it; it gave me nightmares. I knew, instinctively, that collapse was where the world was heading if things didn’t change significantly. I wouldContinue reading “In Collapse – new book out now”
Can you help
You know the world’s f…….ed when you can’t afford to die! Tristan Sykes was a collapse activist, one of a handful of people who defined this style of thought and action. He would routinely share Just Collapse posts across up to 100 Facebook pages (when FB would allow!) and made connections, friends and, occasionally, adversariesContinue reading “Can you help”
RIP Tristan Sykes
With immense sadness, I share the news of Tristan Sykes’ passing – unexpected and sudden. Tristan was my best friend, lover, and activist-in-arms for many years. His intelligence, wit, and strategic nouse were key to the success of Just Collapse. He spent his life fighting injustice and standing with the oppressed and marginalised. The worldContinue reading “RIP Tristan Sykes”
Mutual Aid – no one left behind
Mutual Aid – what is happening, what has happened, what will happen: “We do not wait for help; we become it. Without permission, we build in the ashes, along the flood plains, and across the fault lines. Disasters keep coming, and we return again and again, not as saviors but as neighbors, kin, and fellowContinue reading “Mutual Aid – no one left behind”
Spoiler alert on the great debate
‘Is it too late to avoid civilizational collapse?’ – debators took to the stage at a popular science festival, broadcast on state media. When #TalkCollapse hits the mainstream, which way will it go? Spoiler alert – #JustCollapse co-founder, A/Prof Kate Booth was on the winning team, The Three Horsewomen of the Apocalypse! Listen now: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigideas/beaker-street-fest-debate-2025-civilisational-collapse-big-ideas/105837448
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