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‘If there’s one thing that 2020 taught us it’s that if we prepare for a health crisis as if it were only a health crisis, then we miss the boat.’ Likewise, if we prepare for collapse as if its all about fossil fuel emissions, then we not only ‘miss the boat’, we hit the rocksContinue reading “Fragile states index”

‘But it’s different this time!!! No. It’s not. Overshoot is overshoot. Once your civilization starts to consume more than what naturally gets regenerated, in its folly to pursue infinite growth on a finite planet, collapse is only a matter of time’. https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/how-i-came-to-believe-that-civilization-is-unsustainable-12c12ba9f461 In its hubris, modern techno-industrial civilisation remains captivated by fairy tales and unicorns,Continue reading “But it’s different this time!”

Homo sapiens for all our brilliant achievements, our creativity and ingenuity, we are not gods – as mortals, we are subject to laws of physics, to chemistry, biology, subject to entropy and limits to growth. Rather than building spaceships for elites to get a brief glimpse of our pale blue dot, facing our own extinctionContinue reading “Home sapiens”

We are now in a phase of desperate measures – hi-tech, geoengineering planetary reboots. These ‘experiments’ will be run, not in a lab, but on the whole planet. The capacity for injustice is gargantuan. Depending on the type of geoengineering, this may include an increase in regional drought and conflict, negative impacts on human healthContinue reading “Geoengineering reboot”

Collapse can feel like a very masculine space – dominated by heroic imaginings and deep voices. #JustCollapse adopts a decentralised approach aiming to redistribute power to the marginalised, dispossessed and disadvantaged. This means, empowering people – in all our diversity – to achieve justice via a #PlannedCollapse. ‘A post… titled “Will the female preppers pleaseContinue reading “Is collapse too masculine?”

Crack the puzzle! The Just Collapse logo represents the severity of our predicament, and what comes after. Enter your interpretation of our logo in the comments on this post before Friday 14 April 2022. The best will win a Just Collapse drink holder – perfect for keeping your drink cool in a warming climate.

The expanding human eco-footprint is arguably the world’s best-known indicator of the (un)sustainability of techno-industrial society. The wealthy world “is living off its ecological credit card. While this can be done for a short while, overshoot ultimately leads to liquidation of the planet’s ecological assets, and the depletion of resources, such as the forests, oceansContinue reading “Big eco-Foot”

Heard of a Blue Ocean Event? To summarise: ‘Losing the reflective power of Arctic sea ice will lead to warming equivalent to one trillion tons of CO2 and advance the 2ºC threshold by 25 years.’ This means the ‘equivalent to an increase in CO2 concentration from 400 to 456.7 parts per million.’ A Blue OceanContinue reading “Blue Ocean Event”

More and more, people are talking collapse – with their friends, partners, family and work colleagues. Just Collapse wants to hear about your experience of talking collapse. What is your best experience? What is your worst experience? What have you learnt? Talking collapse is vital for justice – everyone has the right to know, andContinue reading “Talking collapse: What’s your experience?”

There is human and ecological justice to be achieved if we start now to deliberately contract the human enterprise. Collapse is inevitable, but justice isn’t: ‘For me at least, the choice of which path we need to follow is obvious: purposeful contraction of humanity and its complex systems. It needs to be purposeful if weContinue reading “Human and ecological justice”