Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change

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.

Rescuing civilization: Does the conservative/progressive rift pose an existential threat to humanity?

By Donovan C. Wilkin, Resilience.org

Simultaneously husbanding and equitably sharing multiple global common resources is the ultimate social challenge to humanity’s survival.  Today specifically, that means navigating the impending perfect storm of simultaneous climate change, soil destruction, and fossil fuel depletion. 

Can we predict collapses before they happen? What we learned from the pandemic

By Ugo Bardi, Daniel Ruiz, Cassandra's legacy

The overshoot of human activity is driving the planet from the stability of the Holocene to the instability of the Anthropocene.

Living with Collapse

By Erik Assadourian, Gaianism

This is at the heart of the Gaian philosophy. The hope is to develop local communities of those who understand our utter dependence on the Earth, as well as the moment in time we’re living through

Who is “we”?

By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org

We humans have made a mess of things, which is readily evident if we face the avalanche of studies and statistics describing the contemporary ecological crises we face. The question is, can we—all of us—face what lies ahead without diversion and without illusion?

The five real conspiracies you need to know about

By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog

While millions of people are spellbound by false conspiracy theories, the real conspiracies that are wrecking our world go about their business unheeded. Here are five genuine threats that everyone should know about—and take action on.

What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?

By Richard Heinberg, Common Dreams

You see, the real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need to change in any fundamental way.

Education in a Time of Collapse

By Ahmed Afzaal, Resilience.org

The assumption that the future is going to be just like the past is untenable. If we keep educating our students on the basis of this assumption, then that means we’re not preparing them for the world.

This is How we End Deforestation to Avert Pandemic, Climate and Societal Collapse

By Nafeez Ahmed, Insurge Intelligence

Deforestation is one of the most intractable and yet most potent drivers of environmental crisis. It is also among the four out of nine planetary boundaries that civilisation was already at high risk of crossing five years ago according to research published in the journal Science.

Four Reasons Civilization Won’t Decline: It Will Collapse

By Craig Collins, CounterPunch

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? 

How Everything Can Collapse: Excerpt

By Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Resilience.org

We are not just presenting a 'top ten' of the century's bad news stories, we are mainly proposing a theoretical framework for hearing about, understanding and welcoming all the small-scale initiatives that are already facing up to the 'post-carbon' world, initiatives that are emerging at break­neck speed.

Deep Adaptation Opens Up a Necessary Conversation about the Breakdown of Civilisation

By Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens, Gauthier Chapelle, Daniel Rodary, Open Democracy

As Rob Hopkins and Joanna Macy say, we must lead with our heads, hearts and hands: understanding what is happening (collapso-logy), imagining and believing in other worlds, and finding courage (collapso-sophy) as well as gathering living forces to build alternatives and lead the fight against destructive powers (collapso-praxis).