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Humanity’s unique capacity for ignorance and arrogance is summed up in this famous quote from Professor of Biology, E.O. Wilson. #TalkCollapse

‘Let’s have no illusions. We are in rough seas. A winter of global discontent is on the horizon. A cost-of-living crisis is raging. Trust is crumbling. Our planet is burning. People are hurting – with the most vulnerable suffering the most… The international community is not ready or willing to tackle the big dramatic challengesContinue reading “UN: Let’s have no illusions”

How to #TalkCollapse? The Talk Collapse Campaign was launched by Just Collapse in late 2021 and builds on the work of pioneers who have been warning about collapse for decades. The Talk Collapse campaign mobilises those who understand the inevitability of collapse to communicate this knowledge as a matter of distributive justice. Everybody has theContinue reading “Talk Collapse Campaign”

Distinguished Professor Vaclav Smil: ‘Wind turbines are the most visible symbols of the quest for renewable electricity generation. And yet, although they exploit the wind, which is as free and as green as energy can be, the machines themselves are pure embodiments of fossil fuels.’ Green energy is a myth. It is a con, aContinue reading “Pure embodiment of fossil fuels”

French President Emmanuel Macron talks collapse: ‘What we are currently living through is a kind of major tipping point or a great upheaval … we are living the end of what could have seemed an era of abundance … the end of the abundance of products of technologies that seemed always available … the endContinue reading “The French President said what?!?”

Degrowth by disaster is now inevitable, and if we fail to plan for this catastrophic collapse, then we are planning to fail spectacularly. To ease the descent we must plan for, and seek, what socio-ecological justice we can. A #PlannedCollapse is a #JustCollapse.

Relying on philanthropy and innovations of billionaires to save us from global collapse? Think again: ‘Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion. For them, the futureContinue reading “Billionaires will fix it!”

How do we plan for navigating climate and ecological catastrophe? In this forum, Dr Elizabeth Boulton describes the ‘hyperthreat’ that is our predicament, how to plan to meet the challenges unfolding through this threat, and how censorship is being used to control alternative security narratives. A #PlannedCollapse is a #JustCollapse; any security narrative must entailContinue reading “PLAN E – an emergency response”

‘…societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable… there’s no averting this collapse – electric cars aren’t going to save us, and neither are global climate accords. The current way of things is doomed, and it’s up to us to prepare as best we can to ensure as soft a landing as possible when theContinue reading “Inconvenient apocalypses”

Global ecological #overshoot is leading to a confluence of crises. Climate, economy, food, energy, politics – these are the many faces of #collapse, and Pakistan is currently experiencing all of them: “With millions of acres of farmland still under water and certain roads inaccessible, [food] prices are expected to climb further.” Read more. Collapse isContinue reading “Inflation, floods & food shortages”