Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Presently, the major currents of thinking on both the mainstream political left and right seem fatefully enraptured with the centralized politics of the nation-state, believing that if the correct government is in place it will deliver what the people really want. If people were to stop thinking that, we may be at the start of a politics equal to present times.
Because what we’re doing isn’t just resisting. We’re reclaiming the democracy we always should have had from those who would rule us as kings.
So, all we can hope that the path of sustainability becomes wider and better lit, because as long as it is too difficult, most people will take the easier path, even if the end of that path is not good for any of us.
Space stunts might remain impressive for all time, but the likely destiny is that they become silly in the way so many impressive stunts have.
Some key understandings in Crazy Town: the Earth is finite; the economy cannot grow forever; people can harm ecosystems and cause global warming; physics, chemistry, and biology are real; inequality hurts everyone; healthy humans need community, and it’s more fun to laugh than to cry. But where did principles like these originate?
Can we stand our ground locally against the global superorganism? How can we begin to reclaim agency and compassion – both for ourselves and the ecosystems we are inextricably a part of? Do our instincts no longer serve us in a world so rapidly and radically changed?
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
Robert W. Collin’s The Climate Adaptation Generation is both a call to action and a guide for living in an age of climate disruption. The book presents a comprehensive program for not only surviving but thriving amid the ecological challenges ahead.
From hands to feet, voice to vision, our digital tools extend, transform, and sometimes erase the human body.
After 38 years, during July 18th and 19th, 2025, five new totem poles were raised in Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw (Wrangell, Alaska) while other communities were readying themselves to raise more.
We can now see how the mechanism of transcendence divides us into opposing groups of putatively good and bad while misleading us with false claims and illusions. It must be rooted out—of language—of thought—of behavior—of action.
A true systems thinker isn’t the one who makes elaborate diagrams of nodes connected by lines in impressive form, but the one who expresses epistemic humility in the face of intractable complexity and refrains from proffering solutions. I am reminded of Taoist sages whose greatest accomplishments rest on not-doing.
