If You’re Driving Off a Cliff, Do You Need a Faster Car?
Either we recover collective wisdom faster than our machines can develop artificial executive intelligence, or it’ll likely be game over.
Are we missing something about the coming population decline?
As predictions about world population decline proliferate, the causes almost never include the toxic chemicals that are dramatically undermining human fertility worldwide.
Very very light posting 9 to 16th June, 2023
Due to editorial holiday, there will be very very light posting from 9th to 16th June. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 19th June.
Is Kelp the Next Ocean Hero? Only if We Can Protect It
Kelp forests are one of the “most widespread and valuable marine ecosystems on the planet,” according to a United Nations Environment Programme report released in April.
A Note on the Social Ecology of Capital
A Social Ecology of Capital is a contribution to the critical analysis of capitalist growth and its environmental contradictions.
‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’
Looking to civilisations of the past from our existence today, clearly history does not precisely repeat itself; but it certainly rhymes.
‘The Future is Degrowth’ and ‘Degrowth & Strategy’: a Review in Dialogue
While it is now largely clear what degrowth is striving for, how to realize the transformation towards this end-state has not been engaged with satisfactorily.
James Fleay: “What’s The Deal with Nuclear Energy?”
On this episode energy systems expert James Fleay joins Nate to talk about the current state of nuclear energy and its potential applications in the future.
Justice at the Tap
Ultimately, fixing the water crises in Flint, Jackson, the Navajo Nation, and other places will require systemic investment at every level.
Climate Change Policy: The Way It Has to Be
If compromise is an evil, then it’s a necessary one for our republic to work. Without it, I fear we’ll default on more than the national debt. What’s at stake here is democracy itself.
Crazy Town: Episode 76. How to Fast-Track Collapse: Manipulating the Masses While Massaging Megalomaniacs
Meet Steve Bannon, the Molotov mixologist who wants to light the world on fire. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Gardens of Diversity
Anyone can produce a plentiful harvest with a similarly small plot of raised beds growing a wide variety of simple food plants that are adapted to many conditions.
