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Marking the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth, one of the original authors describes: ‘Because we haven’t taken effective action in the past, crises are mounting. It’s in the nature of the political response that, when crisis comes, you focus more and more on the short term, and your time horizon shrinks. And becauseContinue reading “50th anniversary, Limits to Growth”

Civilizational collapse has happened before, and is happening now on an unprecedented global scale. Planning has been a tool developed and used on the ‘up’; on the assumption that lives and places are on the improve. Now, we must plan on the ‘down’. A #PlannedCollapse is a #JustCollapse.

Collapse is inevitable; it has already started. This recognition changes the parameters of politics, activism, and planning. Hear how #JustCollapse is formulating a new approach in these unprecedented times, and what motivates and sustains them as collapse activists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i4g-d_bPw4&t=13s #JustCollapse was interviewed by David Baum at the Collapse Club. The Collapse Club is a homeContinue reading “An interview with Just Collapse”

Modern agriculture is fossil fuel dependent. Whether we stop, or continue to use fossil fuel, the collapse of our food systems is inevitable. Meanwhile, fantasies of an agrarian permaculture alternative remain a fantasy: ‘Farming without pesticides and machines doesn’t take us all the way to a stunning new future of abundance for eight billion people.Continue reading “Permaculture and other fantasies”

THIS WEEK, Just Collapse is streaming live with the Collapse Club. Join co-founders, Kate Booth and Tristan Sykes, as they talk about the inevitability of collapse, and how a planned collapse with justice front and center can ease the descent. A #PlannedCollapse is a #JustCollapse. Date and time: Friday 18 February 11am AEDT (please useContinue reading “Streaming live, this week”

The removal of the peer reviewed status of the Seibert and Rees paper ‘…has all the markings of a political face-save, pure and simple. The mainstream renewables camp is a big power player. It has a lot of money and a lot of big names with careers vested in the narrative of business-as-usual by alternativeContinue reading “Scandal update”

If people know, they can act. #TalkCollapse 55 sec video For those who’d like to see the whole interview with Dowd and Cecil – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQk9nmsLrE8

‘…the strategy of collapsing ahead of the rush is not going to be a popular thing to suggest. When I’ve brought it up… I’ve inevitably fielded a flurry of protests, by turns angry and anguished, insisting that it’s not reasonable to expect anybody to do that’ ‘…those who put their hopes on grand political transformations,Continue reading “Collapse now and avoid the rush”

At a ground-breaking event on collapse (Oct 2021), academics and activists spoke at the University of Tasmania, including the authors of the highly read and controversial Energies paper, ‘Through the Eye of a Needle: An Eco-Heterodox Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition‘. One audience member observed: ‘I listened to it live and constantly found myselfContinue reading “Brace for impact”

SCANDAL has broken out concerning a highly read, ground-breaking paper that presents evidence against the viability of renewables to ‘save’ us from overshoot and argues, instead, for the necessity of a deliberate contraction of the human enterprise. Under pressure from third parties, the Editor of the journal Energies, Dr Enrico Sciubba, has reneged on theContinue reading “Scandal in #NewDenial”