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BREAKING NEWS: An admission by an oil industry influencer has broken decades of denial about finite energy resources: ‘At least for now, we’re dependent on oil. And while no one knows exactly when or how [#PeakOil] will unfold, one thing is clear: change is coming whether we’re ready for it or not.’ All proposed energyContinue reading “Energy decline is inevitable”

As we collapse, this free online book provides examples of what action we can take collectively. Taken from academic literature, it’s about how we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays. How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we act to secure alternate sources?Continue reading “‘A Little Book of Insurgent Planning’”

10 degrees of global warming has been confirmed by eminent climate scientist Prof Hansen. This sounds the death-knell for plankton, the base of the global food chain and the provider of half the world’s oxygen. Krill jenga equals a #DeadPlanet Though our destination is inevitable, how we get there still matters. Act now for aContinue reading “Krill Jenga”

BREAKING NEWS? Once again, the environment movement celebrates spectacular failure as ‘success.’ Not recognising the true nature of our predicament, and the limits to growth, has led to decades of maladaptive action including this signing of the High Seas Treaty. This treaty is an example of partial and relative justice for ocean life in contextContinue reading “Partial and relative justice for ocean life”

‘Not one independent, and therefore trustworthy, geoscientist believes that we have the resources to simply turn our systems renewable (or otherwise magically less extractive and polluting). Not one… We are being led by idiots. It’s past time to admit that they’re not helping us and get on with our lives without them.’ Seize power throughContinue reading “We are being led by idiots”

We collapse if we do. We collapse if we don’t. Choose a #JustCollapse

No options left: The Potsdam Institute assessed 1200 IPPC pathways for keeping global warming in check. Based on an assessment of what is realistic and reasonable, they determined that none of these pathways are viable. 1.5C is long gone – even the UN acknowledges this – and now tipping points and higher global temperatures areContinue reading “Zero options left”

Professor Jared Diamond, author of ‘Collapse: How societies choose to fail or survive’, sums up how we have chosen to fail. #TalkCollapse for a #JustCollapse.

Dirty air from fossil fuel consumption is protecting us from global warming more so than previously expected. A chemical interaction between air pollutants and methane reduces the potency of methane – a greenhouse gas thirty times more powerful than CO2: “Atmospheric methane concentrations rose unexpectedly during the lockdowns of 2020. It now seems that thisContinue reading “Dirty air and methane”

At the base of the Tree of Life lies the maximum power principle – sometimes referred to as the 4th Law of Thermodynamics. This principle states that life seeks to maximise energy return from the lowest energy invested. This is our genetic heritage and an inherited trait of all known life. We will consume energyContinue reading “Tree of Life”