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‘…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”

The virtual economy has real world consequences. This is the reality of infinite growth on a finite planet. Whichever way you slice it, collapse is inevitable: ‘Information might seem immaterial. But within a few short centuries, the total amount of digital bits produced annually by humanity could exceed the number of atoms on our planetContinue reading “More data anyone?”

Planning for collapse requires deep engagement with what collapse entails. It’s a lot easier, as climate appeasers do, to think only about the possibility of stopping collapse – of preventing the impossible. But we are currently tracking on the worst-case scenario and as Prof Bill McGuire describes, quoting the conclusions of a recent scientific paper:Continue reading “Hope for the best, while…”

‘What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist‘ George Bernard Shaw The word ‘zeitgeist’, originating with philosopher Hegel, is the descriptor for the spiritContinue reading “Riding the Zeitgeist: A theory of change”

A ‘renewables’ transition? “Their cost is environmental destruction, the theft of land from villagers and the funneling of money to brutal militias, including at least one linked to Myanmar’s secretive military government. As demand soars for rare earths along with green energy, the abuses are likely to grow.” Read more The renewable energy industry servesContinue reading “Don’t be deceived”

Many have access to immense amounts of information yet refuse to see the truth, instead placing their faith in fairy tales of infinite growth. #TalkCollapse – end the fairy tales, build a collapse-conscious citizenry and act for socio-ecological justice. #JustCollapse

As a Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent for the New York Times, Chris Hedges has seen collapse up close. “Our civilization’s collapse will be unique in size, magnified by the destructive force of our fossil fuel-driven industrial society. But it will replicate the familiar patterns of collapse that toppled civilizations of the past. The differenceContinue reading “Not the first, probably the last”

Running out of fossil fuels, just as the impacts of CO2 emissions spiral out of control, may appear serendipitous. Yet both spell the unravelling of global industrial civilisation and of the livelihoods of 8 billion people. As Steve Bull observes: ‘We have hit significant diminishing returns on our extraction of fossil fuels. This is extremelyContinue reading “Diminishing returns”

It is understandable that many struggle to face the true nature of our predicament when so heavily incentivised not to do so. Dependants of global industrial civilisation are naturally reluctant to bite the hand that feeds, and this fact is yet another slavering maw of the many headed hydra that shapes our ‘wicked problem’. BreakingContinue reading “Slavering maw”