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A ‘renewables’ transition is a proposed solution to climate change, but did you know that a ‘renewables’ transition isn’t possible without coal and a minerals mining boom? This is no solution. #TalkCollapse for a #JustCollapse. The full seminar is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULNEB1fkQDU&t=3059s Presentation slides are available here: https://www.slideshare.net/KateBooth6/rethinking-sustainability-and-the-green-transitionpptx

Our #overshoot predicament defies simple or technical solutions. These solutions are maladaptive as they fail to recognise the true nature of our ‘wicked problem’. However strangely ‘beautiful’ these images may be, they tell the story of our collective inability to recognise ecological limits and planetary boundaries. One more reason to #TalkCollapse. The unexpected beauty ofContinue reading “Bicycle graveyards”

“From the push to replace fuel-engine vehicles with electric ones, to so-called climate-smart agriculture, to protected areas for nature conservation and massive tree planting projects for carbon offsets… All this trickery is called “greening” and it is designed to profit off of climate fears, not stop climate change. While guaranteeing high returns, this deception isContinue reading “Greening ourselves to extinction”

“Often people who choose not to have children feel the need to explain the decision to others. [A different] approach would mean the reverse: requiring that people who wish to ethically bring someone into the world must themselves address difficult questions… A just society values everyone being able to pursue having a child if theyContinue reading “Having a baby as the planet collapses”

The military is talking and planning for collapse. Can you trust your military for a #JustCollapse? Start your own insurgent planning today!

REALITY CHECK: Did you know 10,000s of new mines are needed for the Green Transition? Join this free public lecture as Associate Professor Simon Michaux bursts bubbles and unpacks the complexities and limits of renewable energy. Offer your questions to this plain-speaking expert – are minerals really the new oil?

“One result of our evolutionary heritage is that contemporary humans tend to respond to problems in relatively simplistic, reductionist, mechanical ways… we don’t ‘get’ complexity… [we are] a coyote suspended above an abyss, believing he still stands on solid ground. We are in the interval before he notices he is in thin air and plummetsContinue reading ““We don’t ‘get’ complexity””

Raising the alarm about the severity of our predicament is not alarmism, its realism. The severity cannot be overstated. #TalkCollapse

The cost-of-living crisis is a collapse crisis. Climate/environmental impacts are increasing food prices and disrupting supply chains, fossil fuels are running dry pushing up energy prices, the financial system is teetering. “Yet few if anyone is talking about why these things are happening at the same time, and what they really mean.” #TalkCollapse because thisContinue reading “Cost-of-living crisis?”

As Arthur Dent discovers, the modern westerner, disconnected from the vast enterprise of our energy guzzling ecocidal civilisation, can barely make a sandwich. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Start your #InsurgentPlanning today!