Craig Collins Ph.D. is the author of Toxic Loopholes (Cambridge University Press). He taught political economy and environmental law at California State University East Bay and was a founding member of the Green Party of California. His forthcoming books are: Being Human: The Rise & Demise of Earth’s Most Invasive Species and Rising From the Ruins: Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance. His website is: catabolic-capitalism.com
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California’s AI boom has made billionaires richer. Now a wealth tax is on the ballot
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
September 24, 2026
‘Catabolic Capitalism’: How capitalism profits from collapse
From climate disasters to housing shortages, the system finds new ways to extract value from crisis. In this essay, author Craig Collins argues that modern capitalism is no longer built to expand prosperity, but to monetize collapse.
June 29, 2026
Bright Green Lies & Deep Green Deceptions
This book was designed to divide rather than build a movement. It wrote off and ridiculed anyone engaged in fighting industrialism for humanity’s sake.
June 24, 2021
Open Letter to the People of Planet Earth
Hydrocarbon addiction is extremely insidious because it afflicts your entire species. Recognizing it is much harder when everyone is addicted.
May 18, 2021
Can We Exit This Road to Ruin?
Catabolic capitalism is an energy depleted, self-cannibalizing economy whose insatiable hunger for profit can only be fed by breaking down the society that sustains it.
February 16, 2021
Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse
The eventual outcome of this great implosion is up for grabs. Will we overcome denial and despair; kick our addiction to petroleum; and pull together to break the grip of corporate power over our lives?
August 10, 2020
