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Just Collapse appreciates and values all the responses, answers and guesses we’ve had to our logo competition. Subjective interpretation of symbol is at the very foundation of language. This is when we began to express ourselves and our ideas in the canvas of the dirt, the sand, and the stone. Congratulations to the winner! ‘dystopod’Continue reading “The logo winner”

Finger pointing will not save global modern techno-industrial civilisation from collapse. After 50 years of overshoot we are beyond solutions and remedies. On this severely degraded planet, what remains is the fight for justice – to nudge our descent away from a sheer cliff and towards a steep slide. A #PlannedCollapse is a #JustCollapse.

‘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”