By Ugo Bardi, The Seneca Effect
What could bring down the industrial civilization? Would it be global warming (fire) or resource depletion (ice)? At present, it may well be that depletion is hitting us faster. But, in the long run, global warming may hit us much harder. Maybe the fall of our civilization will be Fire AND ice.
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, Resilience.org
Society is producing too many elite people, and their decisions are causing extreme inequality, which is one of the key components of today’s sustainability crisis.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
For the purposes of this post, we can think of collapse as a drastic and probably chaotic reduction in energy and resource use per person, the result looking primitive by today’s standards.
By David Spratt, Climate Code Red
The climate policymaking orthodoxy is that markets can efficiently price and mitigate climate risks, but this blog argues that when risks are existential — that is, a permanent and drastic curtailing of human civilisation’s future development — then the damages are beyond calculation.
By Juan Bordera Romá, Resilience.org
There are many examples of Tipping points (TP). Although tipping points and points of no return are the buzzwords of our times, we should probably be using them more than we are.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
Humans have acquired the power to radically change the world. Great power should ideally be wielded only by those capable of great responsibility.
By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
Humans today stand in gross violation of our pact with nature. We are egregiously in breach of contract. Our protections are thereby revoked.
By Dick Rauscher, Dick Rauscher blog
The temperature of our planet is rising, and I’m not talking about global warming. I’m talking about the rising social anger temperature and its potential to create a social, civil, and economic collapse.
By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
By Craig Collins, Resilience.org
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.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
A book that inspires reading is a good book. A book that inspires thought is a better book. A book that inspires action is the best book of all. The Good Ancestor is the best book of all.
By Philippe Bihouix, Transforming Society
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.